Alexander Hamilton

A Life

by Willard Sterne Randall

This one-volume biography of the Founding Father charts Alexander Hamilton's career and accomplishments, which included serving as a close aide to General Washington in the Continental Army and as the first Secretary of the Treasury, as well as being co-author of The Federalist Papers. Randall also reveals a man of pleasures whose aristocratic airs brought out strong (and often negative) feelings in others--and which ultimately led to his death in a duel with Burr in 1804.

Editions of Alexander Hamilton

ISBN 9780060195496	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 2003	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780060954666	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Perennial	Date 2004	Price $1.00	Used - Like New
ISBN 9780805058970	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Henry Holt & Co	Date 2000	Price None Available

Publisher Notes

Set against a background of political conspiracy and sexual scandal, Willard Sterne Randall's engaging, authoritative biography brings to life Alexander Hamilton, the illegitimate son of a Scots merchant, who became a dashing Revolutionary soldier and outmaneuvered scores of better-born staff to become George Washington's principal aide, speechwriter, and legal adviser. Less than six years after the American Revolution, Hamilton pulled the infant nation to its feet, galvanizing it into a profitable, fast-growing commercial and military power that was independent of Europe. A ruthless and very successful New York businessman, he became the first secretary of the treasury and created the first federal bank. The American corporation was his brainchild, the stock market his legacy.
Hamilton was the first to anticipate the Industrial Revolution and to envision America at its helm, but his "delirium of ambition" ended in tragedy. Although scandal, Washington's death, and, finally, Aaron Burr's bullet stopped Hamilton's surge for the Presidency, his
towering influence lives on in the global economy of the twenty-first
century.

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