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Alexander Hamilton on Hardback by John P Kaminski
Alexander Hamilton on Hardback by John P Kaminski
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Alexander Hamilton

From Obscurity to Greatness
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Born in 1755 on a small Caribbean island to unmarried parents, Alexander Hamilton did not enjoy the privileges of wealth or heredity by which so many of his contemporaries advanced to the highest levels of power. Yet Hamilton's natural ability and ambition earned him prevailing influence in the American Revolution and the government created thereafter, eventually securing his place in the pantheon of America's founders. Editor John P. Kaminski has gathered a remarkable collection of quotations by and about Alexander Hamilton that paint for us a nuanced portrait of a complex man. Through his own words and the words of his contemporaries -- including the man who killed him in a duel, Aaron Burr -- we can gain a better understanding of this fascinating man who rose from anonymity on a small Caribbean island to the corridors of power.

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John P. Kaminski is the founder and director of The Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is director and co-editor of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution of which twenty-seven volumes have been published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. A leading scholar on Constitutional history, Kaminski has also published another twenty-six volumes on a variety of topics in the American Founding Era and is the author of the America's Founders Series. "Alexander Hamilton" is the first in a series of Word Portraits of America's Founders that Kaminski is producing for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Release date Australia
October 1st, 2016
Pages
200
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Publisher
Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Imprint
Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Dimensions
145x218x23
ISBN-13
9780870208034
Product ID
25651878

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