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Alexander Hamilton : a biography / Forrest McDonald.
- Title
- Alexander Hamilton : a biography / Forrest McDonald.
- Author
- McDonald, Forrest
- Publication
- New York : Norton, c1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ROOT B HAM/M | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
- Description
- xiii, 464 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In this critical reinterpretation of Hamilton's life, the first Secretary of the Treasury is perceived as an ambitious man whose self-appointed mission was to create a new social order in America based not on status but on money.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Association copies (Provenance)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Young man Hamilton -- Education in the political arts: 1775-1783 -- Education in the legal arts: 1782-1784 -- Completion of an education: 1784-1787 -- Constitutional revolution: a preliminary step -- Hamiltonianism -- The financial dilemma -- Funding and assumption -- The mint, the excise, and the bank -- Triumph and trouble: 1791 -- Attack and counterattack: 1791-1792 -- The duel with Jefferson: 1793 -- Prime minister -- Minister in absentia -- The Adams years: 1797-1801.
- ISBN
- 0393012182
- LCCN
- ^^^78026554^
- OCLC
- 4493051
- SCSB-10486274
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library