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B HAM
Publication Date
2004
Summary:
Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography argues that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. Chernow here recounts Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Historians have long told the story of America's birth as the triumph of Jefferson's democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we've encountered before -- from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.
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Books
ISBN
9781594200090 9780143034759
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B HAM C
Publication Date
2004
Summary:
Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
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Audio disc
ISBN
9780142800430 9781524734503
UPC
051488800439
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Author
Call Number:
B HAM C
Publication Date
2004
Summary:
Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
Format
Books
ISBN
9781594200090
by
Chernow, Ron
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eBook
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HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
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Libby
by
Chernow, Ron
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eBook
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Baker and Taylor
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Added Author
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ACD CHER
Publication Date
2016
Summary:
Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
Format
Audio disc
ISBN
9781524708658 9781415999813
by
Chernow, Ron, Gardner, Grover (NAR)
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eAudiobook
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BOUNDLESS EAUDIOBOOK
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Baker and Taylor
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Call Number:
782.14 HAM
Publication Date
2016
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Music
ISBN
9781495057540
UPC
888680602840
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Call Number:
782.14 HAM
Publication Date
2016
Summary:
Broadway hit musical from Tony Award-winning composrer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda. "Hamilton" is the acclaimed new hip-hop musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, a loving husband and father, despised by his fellow Founding Fathers, and shot to death by Aaron Burr in a legendary duel.
Format
Audio disc
UPC
075678664045
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Call Number:
786.2 MIR
Publication Date
2016
Format
Music
ISBN
9781495069888
UPC
888680630607
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