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Complex, passionate, brilliant, flawed -- Alexander Hamilton comes alive in this exciting biography.He was born out of wedlock on a small island in the West Indies and orphaned as a teenager. From those inauspicious circumstances, he rose to a position of power and influence in colonial America. Discover this founding father's incredible true story: his brilliant scholarship and military career; his groundbreaking and enduring policy, which shapes American government today; his salacious and scandalous personal life; his heartrending end.Richly informed by Hamilton's own writing, with archival artwork and new illustrations, this is an in-depth biography of an extraordinary man.



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Martha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough is the author of many books for young readers: - Frank & The Bad Surprise (Levine Querido) - Into the Bloodred Woods (Scholastic) - I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story (Little, Brown) - This Old Dog (Levine Querido) - Unpresidented: a biography of Donald Trump (Feiwel & Friends) - Cheerful Chick (Scholastic) - Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary (Feiwel & Friends) - Love, Santa (Scholastic) - Back to School with Bigfoot & Bigfoot Wants a Little Brother (Scholastic) - The Game of Love and Death (Scholastic) - Shark Week (Feiwel & Friends) - Finding Bigfoot (Feiwel & Friends) - The Dinosaur Tooth Fairy (Scholastic) - Devine Intervention (Scholastic) She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and founded National Grammar Day. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, a high school teacher, and as editor of MSN.com.



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