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Cargando... Alexander Hamilton: American (1999)por Richard Brookhiser
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I agree with other reviews, not much new to say - very dry, author talked over my head. Too opinionated when I just wanted facts. A difficult read. ( ) Interesting, because of its interesting subject. However, it could have been better written, especially the opening chapters. Hamilton was a man of ideas and words, and these are not coherently portrayed until late in the work. Ultimately, though, it is of great interest, with particularized, insightful portraits of Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Monroe and others. About half way through the book, I decided Mr. Brookhiser is not as enamored with Alexander Hamilton as he is with other Founders. I didn't find the same passion in his writing. Upon further reflection, I realized my interest was not as piqued with Mr. Hamilton as it is with other Founders. I found that more and longer comparisons to other contemporaries of Mr. Hamilton were made. Frequently, other pen-friendly Founders earned several pages of coverage; often, nary a mention of our first Secretary of Treasury was made. This is understandable. Very little is known of Hamilton's youth and correspondence with his wife was burned by her after his death. Richard Brookhiser does note Hamilton as being the most prolific Founder, but his missives tended to be for the public consumption and topical not personal. Alexander Hamilton could easily be the most interesting Founder. His story incorporated a shrewd mind for rights and governance with a healthy dose of licentiousness. He strove to institute a central bank that would entail more government involvement in personal life, but he was also an unabashed abolitionist. His death combined honor and illegality. I appreciate this book for providing Hamilton's biography. I understand what I considered tangents, were necessary to provide social context. And I greatly enjoy Richard Brookhiser's matter-of-fact conveying information without excusing or admonishing his subject. My enthusiasm for this book waxed and waned, depending on what was being discussed at the time. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. An impoverished immigrant when he first came to American shores at age fifteen, Hamilton defined what it meant to be American in an age when the definition was up for grabs. He pounced on the opportunities available in New York and rose rapidly as a patriot, war hero, prominent lawyer, pioneering journalist, and author of two-thirds of The Federalist Papers. An aide to Washington in the Revolutionary war, he was named the first Secretary of the Treasury at the age of thirty-two, in which post he audaciously mapped a system of law and finance that almost single-handedly lifted the new nation into a capitalist era. His economic vision was expansive, celebratory, idealistic, and yet also pragmatic. He deserves to be honored today as the founding father of American capitalism. As the author of so many of The Federalist Papers, not to mention Washington's Farewell Address and several key arguments used by Chief Justice John Marshall, Hamilton fashioned key elements of the American political system. As the founder of the New York Post, and one of the most prolific writers in the age of pamphleteers like Tom Paine, Hamilton also deserves to be remembered as one of the fathers of American journalism. Finally, as evidenced by his extraordinary preemptive confession of a sexual affair and subsequent blackmailing, Hamilton deserves to be remembered for an honesty, passion, and conviction that was as rare in his day as it is in ours. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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