Summary
In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length... Full description
- Prologue: The Oldest Revolutionary War Widow
- The Castaways
- Hurricane
- The Collegian
- The Pen and the Sword
- The Little Lion
- A Frenzy of Valor
- The Lovesick Colonel
- Glory
- Raging Billows
- A Grave, Silent, Strange Sort of Animal
- Ghosts
- August and Respectable Assembly
- Publius
- Putting the Machine in Motion
- Villainous Business
- Dr. Pangloss
- The First Town in America
- Of Avarice and Enterprise
- City of the Future
- Corrupt Squadrons
- Exposure
- Stabbed in the Dark
- Citizen Genet
- A Disagreeable Trade
- Seas of Blood
- The Wicked Insurgents of the West
- Sugar Plums and Toys
- Spare Cassius
- The Man in the Glass Bubble
- Flying Too Near the Sun
- An Instrument of Hell
- Reign of Witches
- Works Godly and Ungodly
- In an Evil Hour
- Gusts of Passion
- In a Very Belligerent Humor
- Deadlock
- A World Full of Folly
- Pamphlet Wars
- The Price of Truth
- A Despicable Opinion
- Fatal Errand
- The Melting Scene
- Epilogue: Eliza.