Alexander Hamilton: Nation Builder

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Nathan Schachner. Alexander Hamilton: Nation Builder

Alexander Hamilton: Nation Builder

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Dreams of Glory

2 Student Patriot

3 Call Colonel Hamilton

4 Benedict Arnold—Traitor

5 From Soldier to Lawyer

6 The Constitution Is Written

7 Ratification

8 Secretary of the Treasury

9 The Bank at Home and Convulsions Abroad

10 A World Aflame

11 Whisky Rebellion and Private Scandal

12 Downfall of the Federalists

13 Public Defeat and Private Tragedy

14 Duel and Death

For Further Reading

GENERAL HISTORY

DOCUMENTS

BIOGRAPHIES

Index

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Nathan Schachner

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The staggering load would have daunted a much older and more experienced man. But the boy of fourteen, going on fifteen, plunged into the mass of details with energy. "Your flour," he would write to a Philadelphia merchant, "is really very bad—being of a most swarthy complexion—& withal very untractable; the Bakers complain that they cannot by any means get it to rise." Or, Captain Gibbs had sailed with his cargo "stowed very Hicheldy-picheldy" and left behind him a mass of debts so complicated that young Hamilton was at his wit's end how to straighten them out. Then Cruger's new sloop, the Thunderbolt, came into the harbor with a cargo of mules and news of pirates roaming the high seas. The boy's military ardor kindled at once. "Arm yourselves," he commanded, "place cannon on board, and defend yourselves against the cutthroats."

So well did he attend to business that Cruger, returning in health again in March, 1772, found his affairs in a most flourishing condition. He could not have done better himself.

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