Ron Chernow

Alexander Hamilton

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Produktbeschreibung

'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in Nevis in the Caribbean, to changing, helping shape our young nation. And it's uniquely an immigrant story and it's uniquely a story about writers... It's an amazing biography' LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.

Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. He charts his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Monroe and Burr; his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds; his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza;and the notorious duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death in July 1804.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apollo / Head of Zeus
• Seitenzahl: 818
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 146mm x 57mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9781800244399
• ISBN-10: 1800244398
• Artikelnr.: 59966417

Autorenporträt

Ron Chernow is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Washington: A Life. Alexander Hamilton and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr were both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Chernow lives in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Alexander HamiltonAuthor's Note Prologue: The Oldest Revolutionary War Widow One: The Castaways Two: Hurricane Three: The Collegian Four: The Pen and the Sword Five: The Little Lion Six: A Frenzy of Valor Seven: The Lovesick Colonel Eight: Glory Nine: Raging Billows Ten: A Grave, Silent, Strange Sort of Animal Eleven: Ghosts Twelve: August and Respectable Assembly Thirteen: Publius Fourteen: Putting the Machine in Motion Fifteen: Villainous Business Sixteen: Dr. Pangloss Seventeen: The First Town in America Eighteen: Of Avarice and Enterprise Nineteen: City of the Future Twenty: Corrupt Squadrons Twenty
One: Exposure Twenty
Two: Stabbed in the Dark Twenty
Three: Citizen Genet Twenty
Four: A Disagreeable Trade Twenty
Five: Seas of Blood Twenty
Six: The Wicked Insurgents of the West Twenty
Seven: Sugar Plums and Toys Twenty
Eight: Spare Cassius Twenty
Nine: The Man in the Glass Bubble Thirty: Flying Too Near the Sun Thirty
One: An Instrument of Hell Thirty
Two: Reign of Witches Thirty
Three: Works Godly and Ungodly Thirty
Four: In an Evil Hour Thirty
Five: Gusts of Passion Thirty
Six: In a Very Belligerent Humor Thirty
Seven: Deadlock Thirty
Eight: A World Full of Folly Thirty
Nine: Pamphlet Wars Forty: The Price of Truth Forty
One: A Despicable Opinion Forty
Two: Fatal Errand Forty
Three: The Melting Scene Epilogue: Eliza Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Selected Books, Pamphlets, and Dissertations Selected Articles Index

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'A mammoth work of research that charted the course of Hamilton's dazzling career and the dark controversies that accompanied it' Guardian