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 strateĀgies 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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... ship , he watched St. Croix drop below the horizon.1 * No doubt , much of the aversion Hamilton felt for St. Croix was owing to the unhappiness he experienced there . His father , James Hamilton , the fourth son of the Laird of ...
... ship captains and supercargoes with whom he was obliged to deal —the seamier side of human nature.4 Even though his connection with Cruger and Beckman might have blos- somed into a junior partnership , Hamilton chafed at the dull round ...
... ship . If Americans were frugal , industrious and wise , he saw no 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 ...
... ships in New York Harbor to help drag to safety the cannon guarding the Battery . But in the subsequent fighting around New York , Hamilton found that something more than bravery and heroism was needed to hold back the British fleet and ...
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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 |