Hamilton
An American Biography- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2018
Summary
The award-winning, smash Broadway hit, Hamilton: An American Musical,continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist.
In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events and values that enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to Revolutionary War hero and Founding Father, a life uniquely shaped by America and who, in turn, contributed to the creation of the American regime of liberty and self-government. He was one of key leaders in the American Revolution, a chief architect of America’s constitutional order of self-government, and the key figure in Washington’s administration creating the institutions that governed America. Williams expertly weaves together biography with historical events to place Hamilton as one of the most important founding fathers.
For readers just discovering Hamilton for the first time or those with an insatiable appetite for books on the Founders and the American Founding, Hamilton: An American Biography will shed new light on this American icon now experiencing a remarkable second act.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2018
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-5381-0017-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-5381-0018-9
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 194
- Product type
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS No access
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
- INTRODUCTION No access
- Chapter 1 No access Pages 1 - 3
- Chapter 2 No access Pages 4 - 9
- Chapter 3 No access Pages 10 - 15
- Chapter 4 No access Pages 16 - 28
- Chapter 5 No access Pages 29 - 34
- Chapter 6 No access Pages 35 - 42
- Chapter 7 No access Pages 43 - 51
- Chapter 8 No access Pages 52 - 57
- Chapter 9 No access Pages 58 - 62
- Chapter 10 No access Pages 63 - 70
- Chapter 11 No access Pages 71 - 77
- Chapter 12 No access Pages 78 - 86
- Chapter 13 No access Pages 87 - 98
- Chapter 14 No access Pages 99 - 110
- Chapter 15 No access Pages 111 - 116
- Chapter 16 No access Pages 117 - 126
- Chapter 17 No access Pages 127 - 132
- Chapter 18 No access Pages 133 - 143
- Chapter 19 No access Pages 144 - 152
- Chapter 20 No access Pages 153 - 160
- Chapter 21 No access Pages 161 - 164
- EPILOGUE No access Pages 165 - 166
- CHRONOLOGY No access Pages 167 - 170
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY No access Pages 171 - 176
- NOTES No access Pages 177 - 180
- INDEX No access Pages 181 - 192
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR No access Pages 193 - 194





