Alexander Hamilton
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The Federalist Papers (1787-1788) is a collection of essays and articles by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. Written in support of the recently completed Constitutional Convention, The Federalist Papers were intended to support the ratification process of the new United States Constitution. When the Constitutional Convention was completed on September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, the newly-agreed upon Constitution was sent to the states...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The series of essays that make up The Federalist constitute one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic political system that was created after independence. Written in 1787-1788 they stand as an eloquent testimonial to democracy.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This book summarizes the founding of America alongside the personal and public life of one of America's most influential Founders through a comprehensive investigation of Hamilton's extensive writings. Introduces, provides notes on, and critically evaluates key documents that Hamilton wrote from his youth in the Caribbean through his leadership of the Federalist Party in the 1800s, and provides historical context.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 129
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington's right-hand man. A fierce partisan whose nationalist vision made him Thomas Jefferson's bitter rival. An unfaithful husband whose commitment to personal honor brought his life to a tragic early end. The amazing success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton has stoked an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Alexander Hamilton, the brilliant and divisive founder who profoundly shaped the...
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A monumental, canon-defining anthology of four centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. Many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values, but even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writers self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable...
14) The Federalist
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Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Series
Language
English
Description
This compilation of eighty-five articles explains and defends the ideals behind the highest form of law in the United States, the Constitution. The essays were written and published anonymously in New York newspapers during the years 1787 and 1788 by three of the Constitution's framers and ratifiers: Alexander Hamilton, General George Washington's Chief of Staff and first Secretary of the Treasury; John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States;...