Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New NationProbably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation under a centralized government, he left an imprint upon this country that time has not effaced. Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation is the premier biography of Alexander Hamilton written by one of the foremost scholars of early American history. Hamilton's career was at times contradictory: born, in John Adams's words, the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," he rose to high social, political, and military position in the newly born country. He dreaded divisiveness, yet his strateÂgies and actions aggravated political sectionalism. Miller weaves together the complex facets of Hamilton's life to make a vivid, absorbing biography. |
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... reason , but it is no more possible to find such a guaranteed combination among the rich and well born than among the middle and lower segments of society . Hamilton , however , was never an advocate of monarchy or aristocracy , but ...
... reason why they could not be as well clad as Englishmen — and this without the necessity of importing a yard of cloth from abroad . All the raw materials , he pointed out , were either available or could quickly be brought under ...
... reason to suppose that it would rise to the occasion . But the case was not so desperate as it might appear : he believed that he had the answer to the problems that vexed the Empire , and that if British statesmen could be persuaded to ...
... reason and knowledge to guide them , " the people seemed certain to cast off law and order as so much impedimenta upon the rights of man . Even intelligent people , Hamilton feared , were prone , under the stress of passion , to run ...
... reasons that made Hamilton deplore Sears's raid : both men wanted to keep the mob out of the American Revolution ... reason of their implicit devotion to their priests , and the superlative reverence they bear those who countenance ...
Contents
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The Quarrel with Washington | 62 |
The Union Against Chaos Chapter 5 Congress and the Army | 83 |
Law and the Loyalists | 100 |
A Rage for Liberty | 111 |
Democracy and Banking | 120 |
The Opposition Emerges | 311 |
The Attack upon Hamilton | 322 |
Hamiltons Quarrel with Jefferson and Burr | 343 |
The Union Against Foreign Aggression The Proclamation of Neutrality Chapter 24 The Proclamation of Neutrality | 363 |
The War Clouds Gather | 379 |
The Whisky Rebellion | 396 |
Jays Treaty | 415 |
The Election of 1796 | 435 |
More Power to Congress | 131 |
The Constitutional Convention 1 | 151 |
The Constitutional Convention 2 | 171 |
The Federalist | 184 |
The Rule of Law | 193 |
A More Perfect Union | 206 |
The First Secretary of the Treasury Chapter 15 The First Secretary of the Treasury | 219 |
The Report on Public Credit | 229 |
Speculators vs Patriots | 238 |
The Bank of the United States | 255 |
The Report on Manufactures | 278 |
The Effort to Transform the American Economy | 296 |
The Mission to France | 451 |
Second in Command of the United States Army | 466 |
The War That Refused to Come to a Boil | 479 |
The Effort to Avert Peace | 493 |
The Election of 1800 | 509 |
The Union Above All Chapter 34 A Prophet of Woe | 533 |
Defender of the Freedom of the Press | 544 |
The Duel with Burr | 557 |
Notes | 577 |
Bibliography | 623 |
Index | 641 |