ALEXANDER HAMILTON - Summarized for Busy People

ALEXANDER HAMILTON - Summarized for Busy People
Author: Goldmine Reads
Publisher: Goldmine Reads
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version. Ron Chernow creates the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades. He shares the story of a man who faced all challenges in order to create and inspire newborn America. Historian, Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic, and dangerous founder of them all.” Of all the founding figures in American history, Alexander has been the most hotly debated and grossly misunderstood. Chernow’s biography sets the information straight in creating a picture of how Hamilton had countless sacrifices in order to make political, financial, and economic changes to achieve the greatness that America is today. Chernow shares the early life of Hamilton from an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, taking America by storm and rising to George Washington’s side in the Continental Army, founding the Bank of New York, and becoming the Treasury Secretary of the United States. It has been a longstanding view that America’s birth had been the triumph of Jefferson, but Chernow creates a whole new perspective from a man whose great vision was motivated not merely by self-interest but by a passion for patriotism and a stubborn will to create the foundations of American greatness. The biography by Chernow illustrates a more humanistic view of Hamilton—from his birth, intimate relationships, and feuds to his publicized affair to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. Never before had there been a more poignant and vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804. Not only does the book provide a portrait of Hamilton and his life, but the story of the birth of America around the lives of its most central figures. Alexander Hamilton’s life reminds the readers of the purpose and vision behind the American heritage. Wait no more, take action and get this book now!

Hamilton by the Slice

Hamilton by the Slice
Author: William G. Chrystal
Publisher: Empire for Liberty
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2009
Genre: Hamilton, Alexander
ISBN: 9780981976075

War of Two

War of Two
Author: John Sedgwick
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1592408524

The murder-by-duel of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr remains one of the most shocking and unparalleled events in American history. In War of Two, John Sedgwick offers a detailed and vivid portrayal of the lives of these two major figures of the pre and post-Revolutionary era, of the dramatic events they lived through and of the political and personal conflicts that led to their clash.

Something Rotten

Something Rotten
Author: Alan M. Gratz
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009-01-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1101046333

Denmark, Tennessee, stinks. The smell hits Horatio Wilkes the moment he pulls into town to visit his best friend, Hamilton Prince. And it's not just the paper plant and the polluted river that's stinking up Denmark: Hamilton's father has been poisoned and the killer is still at large. Why? Because nobody believes that Rex Prince was murdered. Nobody except Horatio and Hamilton. Now they need to find the killer, but it won't be easy. It seems like everyone in Denmark is a suspect. Motive, means, opportunity--they all have them. But who among them has committed murder most foul?

The Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth
Author: Jane Hamilton
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547523599

PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (Entertainment Weekly). From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World, this is “an extraordinary story of a family’s disintegration [that] will be compared to Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres” (People). It follows Ruth Grey, a young woman in a tiny Illinois farm town, who has lost her father to World War II, and constantly faces her unhappy mother’s wrath—when she isn’t being ignored in favor of her math-prodigy brother. As Ruth navigates her lonely life, she strives to find happiness and pleasure where she can, but the world may conspire to defeat her. “A sly and wistful, if harrowing, human comedy . . . [An] original voice in fiction and one well worth listening to.” —The Boston Sunday Globe “Unforgettably, beat by beat, Hamilton maps the best and worst of the human heart and all the mysterious, uncharted country in between.” —Kirkus Reviews “Hamilton’s story builds to a shocking crescendo. Her small-town characters are as appealingly offbeat and brushed with grace as any found in Alice Hoffman’s or Anne Tyler’s novels.” —Glamour

Nature's Oracle

Nature's Oracle
Author: Ullica Segerstrale
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0191642770

W.D.Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution that changed our understanding of life itself. He played a central role in the realization that what matters in evolution is not the survival of the individual but of the survival of its genes. This provided the solution to the long standing problem of animal altruism that vexed even Darwin himself, and in due course resulted in terms like selfish genes, kin selection, and sociobiology becoming familiar to a wider public. Hamilton went on to solve many more major problems, and open up ever new fields - he shaped much of our current understanding of central problems including the evolution of sexual reproduction and ageing. He became world famous and garnered international prizes. But this is all in hindsight. In fact, Hamilton's recognition came late - his career is a classic case of misunderstood genius. In this illuminating and moving biography Ullica Segerstrale documents Hamilton's extraordinary life and work, revealing a man of immense intellectual curiosity, an uncompromising truth-seeker, a naturalist and jungle explorer, a risk-taker, an unconventional scientist with a poet's soul and a deep concern for life on earth and mankind's future.

Summary of Phillip Thomas Tucker's Alexander Hamilton's Revolution

Summary of Phillip Thomas Tucker's Alexander Hamilton's Revolution
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2022-07-30T23:00:00Z
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant, had met Rachel in the Leeward Island of St. Kitts in 1750. They lived an unconventional lifestyle together for about fifteen years, until Rachel was unable to legitimize their relationship in legal terms. #2 After nearly a decade of fleeing St. Croix, Lavien filed for divorce in 1759 in order to protect his one legitimate heir, Peter Lavien, while ensuring that Alexander and James were declared bastard and whore children’ who could never legally inherit any of his property. #3 Alexander Hamilton’s life in Nevis, until age ten, and then Christiansted, St. Croix, was filled with the sights and sounds of the busy wharf and dock: noisy fishermen and sailors from around the world, black slaves, stately royal palms and orange trees loaded with ripe fruit, and flocks of low-flying brown pelicans. #4 Alexander’s early experiences on St. Croix shaped his character and made him hate slavery. The world of the Danish West Indies shaped and molded the man destined to become one of America’s most beloved Founding Fathers.