The Hamilton scheme : an epic tale of money and power in the American founding
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2024]., ©2024
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2024]., ©2024
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525 pages ; 24 cm
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2405
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English

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Forgotten founder" no more, Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name. Millions imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It’s ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man’s most dramatic battles and hardest-won achievements—as well as downplaying unsettling aspects of his legacy. Thrilling to the romance of becoming the one-man inventor of a modern nation, our first Treasury secretary fostered growth by engineering an ingenious dynamo—banking, public debt, manufacturing—for concentrating national wealth in the hands of a government-connected elite. Seeking American prosperity, he built American oligarchy. Hence his animus and mutual sense of betrayal with Jefferson and Madison—and his career-long fight to suppress a rowdy egalitarian movement little remembered today: the eighteenth-century white working class. Marshaling an idiosyncratic cast of insiders and outsiders, vividly dramatizing backroom intrigues and literal street fights—and sharply dissenting from recent biographies—William Hogeland’s The Hamilton Scheme brings to life Hamilton’s vision and the hard-knock struggles over democracy, wealth, and the meaning of America that drove the nation’s creation and hold enduring significance today.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hogeland, W. (2024). The Hamilton scheme: an epic tale of money and power in the American founding (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hogeland, William. 2024. The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hogeland, William. The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

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Hogeland, W. (2024). The hamilton scheme: an epic tale of money and power in the american founding. First edn. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hogeland, William. The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.

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