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Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography argues that the political and economic greatn...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the oldest Revolutionary War widow
- The castaways
- Hurricane
- The collegian
- The pen and the sword
- The little lion
- A frenzy of valor
- The lovesick colonel
- Glory
- Raging billows
- A grave, silent, strange sort of animal
- Ghosts
- August and respectable assembly
- Publius
- Putting the machine in motion
- Villainous business
- Dr. Pangloss
- The first town in America
- Of avarice and enterprise
- City of the future
- Corrupt squadrons
- Exposure
- Stabbed in the dark
- Citizen Genet
- A disagreeable trade
- Seas of blood
- The wicked insurgents of the West
- Sugar plums and toys
- Spare Cassius
- The man in the glass bubble
- Flying too near the sun
- An instrument of hell
- Reign of witches
- Works godly and ungodly
- In an evil hour
- Gusts of passion
- In a very belligerent humor
- Deadlock
- A world full of folly
- Pamphlet wars
- The price of truth
- A despicable opinion
- Fatal errand
- The melting scene
- Epilogue: Eliza.