| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic. By Robert E. Wright. (Westport: Greenwood, 2002. xii, 230 pp. $62.95, ISBN 0-275-97816-8.)

Although Alexander Hamilton is rarely mentioned until the epilogue of this book, Robert E. Wright wants him to be the conceptual spine of the six essays proffered in Hamilton Unbound. In these essays, Wright asserts, he will demonstrate the pervasiveness of Hamilton's influence and his importance to the political and economic growth of the early republic. Throughout his essays, Wright avers, he reveals the ultimate triumph of Hamilton's ideas and their liberating effect upon the American economy. Lest this be seen as a Beardian reprise, Wright emphasizes his use of financial theory as a lens for understanding familiar events. The episodes that are the subject of his study offer, he says, a new perspective, a Hamiltonian interpretation of the early years of the nation.

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