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The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
"Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely great book." —David McCullough
“A robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." —Joseph Ellis
Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.
Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.
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"Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely great book." —David McCullough
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          Prologue: The Oldest Revolutionary War Widow
          One: The Castaways
          Two: Hurricane
          Three: The Collegian
          Four: The Pen and the Sword
          Five: The Little Lion
          Six: A Frenzy of Valor
          Seven: The Lovesick Colonel
          Eight: Glory
          Nine: Raging Billows
          Ten: A Grave, Silent, Strange Sort of Animal
          Eleven: Ghosts
          Twelve: August and Respectable Assembly
          Thirteen: Publius
          Fourteen: Putting the Machine in Motion
          Fifteen: Villainous Business
          Sixteen:
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          Seventeen: The First Town in America
          Eighteen: Of Avarice and Enterprise
          Nineteen: City of the Future
          Twenty: Corrupt Squadrons
          Twenty-One: Exposure
          Twenty-Two: Stabbed in the Dark
          Twenty-Three: Citizen Genet
          Twenty-Four: A Disagreeable Trade
          Twenty-Five: Seas of Blood
          Twenty-Six: The Wicked Insurgents of the West
          Twenty-Seven: Sugar Plums and Toys
          Twenty-Eight: Spare Cassius
          Twenty-Nine: The Man in the Glass Bubble
          Thirty: Flying Too Near the Sun
          Thirty-One: An Instrument of Hell
          Thirty-Two: Reign of Witches
          Thirty-Three: Works Godly and Ungodly
          Thirty-Four: In an Evil Hour
          Thirty-Five: Gusts of Passion
          Thirty-Six: In a Very Belligerent Humor
          Thirty-Seven: Deadlock
          Thirty-Eight: A World Full of Folly
          Thirty-Nine: Pamphlet Wars
          Forty: The Price of Truth
          Forty-One: A Despicable Opinion
          Forty-Two: Fatal Errand
          Forty-Three: The Melting Scene

          Epilogue: Eliza

          Acknowledgments
          Notes
          Bibliography
          Selected Books, Pamphlets, and Dissertations
          Selected Articles
          Index

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