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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Silver Medal in Biography, Independent Publisher Book Awards"
"Winner of the Book-of-the-Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution"
"Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards"
"Readers will find an engaging book that provides a unique look at Hamilton’s life as well as the history of Jews in the Revolution and early national period. . . . [An] innovative study that illuminates previously obscured details of Alexander Hamilton’s childhood." * Journal of the American Revolution *
"Ingenious. . . . Porwancher impressively draws on primary sources in half a dozen languages."
---Stephen Whitfield, Jewish Book Council"
Remarkable, informative, and thorough.
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---Mike Fink, Providence Journal"Radical. . . . Porwancher’s prose is extraordinarily bright."
---Adam Jortner, Reviews in American History"Innovative. . . . An invaluable contribution."
---Nan Goodman, American Nineteenth Century History"Very well-written."
---Alexander J. Groth, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs