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Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America)

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Alexander Hamilton, the subject of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit Broadway musical, comes to life in his own words in this critically acclaimed collection, which also includes conflicting eyewitness accounts of the duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death. Probably the most vivid, influential, and controversial figures of the founding of The usa, Hamilton used to be an unusually prolific and vigorous author. As a military aide to George Washington, critic of the Articles of Confederation, proponent of ratification of the Constitution, first Secretary of the Treasury, and leader of the Federalist Party, Hamilton devoted himself to the creation of a militarily and economically powerful American nation guided by a strong, energetic republican government. His public and private writings demonstrate the perceptive intelligence, confident advocacy, driving ambition, and profound concern for honor and reputation that contributed both to his astonishing rise to fame and to his tragic early death.

Arranged chronologically, this volume contains more than 170 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, reports, and memoranda written between 1769 and 1804. Included are all fifty-one of Hamilton’s contributions to The Federalist, in addition to subsequent writings calling for a broad construction of federal power; his famous speech to the Constitutional Convention, which gave rise to accusations that he favored monarchy; and early writings supporting the Revolutionary cause and a stronger central government. His detailed reports as Secretary of the Treasury on the public credit, a national bank, and the encouragement of manufactures present a forward-having a look vision of a country transformed by the power of financial markets, centralized banking, and industrial development.
Hamilton’s once in a while wrong political judgment is revealed in the “Reynolds Pamphlet,” in which he confessed to adultery with a purpose to defend himself against accusations of corrupt conduct, in addition to in his self-destructive pamphlet attack on John Adams all the way through the 1800 presidential campaign. An extensive selection of private letters illuminates Hamilton’s complex relationship with George Washington, his deep affection for his wife and children, his mounting fears all the way through the 1790s regarding the Jeffersonian opposition and the French Revolution, and his profound distrust of Aaron Burr.

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