alexander hamilton the essential hamilton letters & other writings

To James Duane, September 3, 1780: “The Defects of Our Present System” To Elizabeth Schuyler, August 1780: “Examine Well Your Heart” To John Laurens, January 8, 1780: “I Am Not Fit for This Terrestreal Country” To John Jay, March 14, 1779: Enlisting Slaves as Soldiers To John Jay, November 26, 1775: The Danger of Trusting in Virtue To The Royal Danish American Gazette, September 6, 1772: Account of a HurricaneĪ Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, December 15, 1774 To Edward Stevens, November 11, 1769: “My Ambition Is Prevalent” THE WEST INDIES, THE REVOLUTION, AND THE CONFEDERATION, 1769–1786 This paperback edition has been printed on acid-free paper. Author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and a co-host of the popular history podcast BackStory, she has appeared in numerous PBS American Experience documentaries, and, more recently, in the Great Performances documentary “Hamilton’s America.” Freeman is professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and a leading authority on Hamilton and his world.

Freeman, here is a reader’s edition of Hamilton’s essential public writings and private letters, plus the correspondence between Burr and Hamilton that led to their duel and two conflicting eyewitness accounts of their fatal encounter.

Selected and introduced by acclaimed historian Joanne B. Now, Library of America presents an unrivaled portrait of Hamilton in his own words, charting his meteoric rise, his controversial tenure as treasury secretary, and his scandalous final years, culminating in his infamous duel with Aaron Burr. 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 American republic. An unfaithful husband whose commitment to personal honor brought his life to a tragic early end.

A fierce partisan whose nationalist vision made him Thomas Jefferson’s bitter rival. A brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington’s right-hand man.

Alexander hamilton the essential hamilton letters & other writings