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Book SynopsisProbably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation under a centralized government, he left an imprint upon this country that time has not effaced.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I The Union Against Great Britain 1. The Making of a Revolutionary 2. Aide-de-Camp to Washington 3- The Struggle Against Inflation 4- The Quarrel with Washington Part II The Union Against Chaos 5- Congress and the Army 6. Law and the Loyalists 7- "A Rage for Liberty" 8. Democracy and Banking 9- "More Power to Congress" 10. The Constitutional Convention (i) 151 n . The Constitutional Convention (2) 12. The Federalist 13- The Rule of Law !4. A More Perfect Union Part III The Union Consummated 15* The First Secretary of the Treasury 16. The Report on Public Credit 17* "Speculators" vs. "Patriots" 18. The Bank of the United States 19- The Report on Manufactures 20. The Effort to Transform the American Economy 21. The Opposition Emerges 23- Hamilton’s Quarrel with Jefferson and Burr Part IV The Union Against Foreign Aggression 24. The Proclamation of Neutrality 25- The War Clouds Gather 26. The Whisky Rebellion 27. Jay’s Treaty 28. The Election of 1796 29- The Mission to France 30. Second in Command of the United States Army 31* The War That Refused to Come to a Boil 32. The Effort to Avert Peace 33- The Election of 1800 Part V The Union Above All 34- A Prophet of Woe 35- Defender of the Freedom of the Press 36. The Duel with Burr
