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William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander. J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Slouching Towards Utopia

How Alexander Hamilton embraced American oligarchy to jumpstart American prosperity.

Forgotten founder no more, Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name. Millions imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man's most dramatic battles and hardest-won achievementsas well as downplaying unsettling aspects of his legacy.

Thrilling to the romance of becoming the one-man inventor of a modern nation, our first Treasury secretary fostered growth by engineering an ingenious dynamobanking,

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    Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publication Date: 5/28/2024
    ISBN13: 9780374167837, 978-0374167837
    ISBN10: 0374167834

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander. J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Slouching Towards Utopia

    How Alexander Hamilton embraced American oligarchy to jumpstart American prosperity.

    Forgotten founder no more, Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name. Millions imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man's most dramatic battles and hardest-won achievementsas well as downplaying unsettling aspects of his legacy.

    Thrilling to the romance of becoming the one-man inventor of a modern nation, our first Treasury secretary fostered growth by engineering an ingenious dynamobanking,

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