| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Alexander Hamilton. By Ron Chernow. (New York: Penguin, 2004. xii, 818 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 1-59420-009-2. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-14-303475-8.)

This book is one of those happy rarities: a popular biography that should also delight scholars. The subject is the man who might well be regarded as the real first president of the United States (Alexander Hamilton created the economic foundation on which a great commercial republic could be built, wisely chose to emphasize ties with Great Britain at a time when France was enmeshed in a destabilizing revolution, and was George Washington's most influential adviser and secret speechwriter). Ron Chernow has given us valuable portraits as well of Hamilton's major contemporaries, including not just Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, and Aaron Burr, but also Abigail Adams, Hamilton's well-born wife Elizabeth Schuyler, her father Philip Schuyler (a titan in New York politics), and a bevy of secondary players.

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