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Title: Alexander Hamilton (World Leaders: Past and Present) by Steven O'Brien, Arthur Meier, Jr. Schlesinger ISBN: 1-55546-810-1 Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library) Pub. Date: December, 1989 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Best Hamilton biography for the lay person, (like myself!)
Comment: This book was the first one I read about Alexander Hamilton. I was intrigued by him as a youngster when my mother told me that we were related to him. The more I read about him, the more proud I am of him and our Hamilton connections.

Dated book, yes, yet probably the most accurate to date as to his character. The book is easy to read and I recommend it to everyone to read first before handling any other biographies about him.

He simply loved law and order and heroism. He was a romantic who dreamed of great things not only for himself but also for this country. In this book, you will learn how he plead with congress to provide food and clothes to the continental army, after, in fighting the British himself, he came upon our troops at valley forge and saw the despicable way in which our troops were thus supplied. He did many more things for this country, besides participating in the battle of Yorktown and pushing for a better constitution than the continental rag of one that we had at first. He established the coast guard, the bank of the U.S., and you will learn how he got this country back on its feet financially after the war, and what a sorry mess financially this country was in right after the war at such an early stage of our nation's history.

Henry Cabot Lodge's book should be a classic, age should not matter. It is biased toward Hamilton, but if you really read everything written about Hamilton, there is more of a balance toward the negative, and written by those who disliked his policies, and who succeeded not only in kicking him out of government but also killing him.

In Cabot's book, you'll understand that it was largely Alexander's dealings that Washington was our first president.

This book should never be archived 'on some musty shelf'.

Read it!!

Rating: 4
Summary: Dated but worthwhile
Comment: More interesting for an examination of how the perception of Hamilton has changed over time than as a biography (the book is over 100 years old). The author was the Senator who destroyed President Wilson's dream of a League of Nations, leaving him a broken man