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• Date Posted: 10/29/09

Alexander Hamilton: A Biography by Forrest McDonald (copyright 1979). This edition (copyright 1995) is part of The Founding Fathers six-volume set of biographies from Easton Press. The book, which is not available from the publisher as a stand-alone volume, is in excellent condition.
Easton Press volumes are among the most beautiful and durable books available today. Each volume is bound in genuine leather with a hubbed spine and accented with 22-karat gold, and printed on acid-neutral paper. The Smyth-sewn pages have gilded edges and are complemented by a sewn-in satin ribbon page marker and distinctive endleaves.
From the foreword by Daniel Boorstin: “Some great figures in history are yoked in textbook-pairs which makes it easy to oversimplify them and blurs the subtleties of their character. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson are such a pair. It is a virtue of Forrest McDonald’s lively biography of Hamilton that he unyokes Hamilton from his historic antagonist Thomas Jefferson and shows us the nuances of his thought and feeling.
“The Jeffersonian political principles – the high-minded rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence – remain in the foreground of our traditional histories of the origin and birth of our nation. But the talents of Hamilton, whose policies and principles indelibly marked the founding years of our republic, are more difficult to popularize. Hamilton’s projects, vividly brought to life in this book, were conspicuously practical, political and economic, unsuitable for celebration with 4th-of-July fireworks…Hamilton prescribed for the nation’s economy just as Jefferson was prescribing for the nation’s spirit.”
From the Journal of American History: “Alexander Hamilton is distinguished by the author’s lively style, insights and originality…He presents a new and altogether convincing account of the origins and development of his subject’s political and economic theories…[His] exposition of Hamilton’s program as secretary of the treasury is outstanding…[Readers] are unlikely to find a more lucid and informed account of the entire subject.”
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