The Hamilton Papers: Historic Documents Referenced in the Broadway Musical

by Alexander Hamilton

Do you love everything about the broadway show An American Musical ? Do you find yourself listening to the Hamilton cast album on repeat all day and night? Do you quote Lin-Manuel Miranda to random people you meet? If so, this book is for you! The Hamilton Papers is the only complete resource for the historic documents from the hit Broadway musical. This amazing collection includes over 430 pages of Alexander Hamilton’s writing wrapped in a beautifully designed matte soft-touch book cover. Get lost in Hamilton’s elegant prose and go inside the mind of the man considered to be one of the greatest writers of his time. You’ll be amazed by Hamilton’s ability to convince people of his ideas using only his written words. A true Hamilton fan doesn’t know the whole story until they’ve read this book! The Hamilton Papers was created to give fans of the show a behind-the-scenes look at history. Want to know what Hamilton wrote as a teenager that made his local community raise money to send him across an ocean to New York? What was so important about Hamilton’s extramarital affair that he risked his marriage and reputation by writing a public pamphlet about it? What exactly were Hamilton and Burr writing to each other in letters that lead to their famous duel? Order The Hamilton Papers now to find out!The book includes the full versions

Genres: History

436 pages, Paperback

Published November 21, 2016

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American politician Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury of United States from 1789 to 1795, established the national bank and public credit system; a duel with Aaron Burr, his rival, mortally wounded him.

One of the Founding Fathers, this economist and philosopher led calls for the convention at Philadelphia and as first Constitutional lawyer co-wrote the Federalist Papers , a primary source for Constitutional interpretation.

During the Revolutionary War, he, born in the West Indies but educated in the north, joined the militia, which chose him artillery captain. Hamilton, senior aide-de-camp and confidant to George Washington, general, led three battalions at the siege of Yorktown. People elected him to the Continental congress, but he resigned to practice law and to found in New York. He served in the legislature of New York and later returned to Congress; at the convention in Philadelphia, only he signed the Constitution for New York. Under Washington, then president, he influenced formative government policy widely. Hamilton, an admirer of British, emphasized strong central government and implied powers, under which the new Congress funded and assumed the debts and created an import tariff and whiskey tax.

A coalition, the formative Federalist Party, arose around Hamilton, and another coalition, the formative Democratic-Republican Party, arose around Thomas Jefferson and James Madison before 1792; these coalitions differed strongly over domestic fiscal goals and Hamiltonian foreign policy of extensive trade and friendly relations with Britain. Exposed in an affair with Maria Reynolds, Hamilton resigned to return to Constitutional law and advocacy of strong federalism. In 1798, the quasi-war with France led him to argue for an army, which he organized and commanded de facto.

Opposition of Hamilton to John Adams, fellow Federalist, contributed to the success of Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican, in the uniquely deadlocked election of 1800. With defeat of his party, his industrializing ideas lost their former prominence. In 1801, Hamilton founded the Federalist broadsheet New-York Evening Post, now known as the New York Post. His intensity with the vice-president eventually resulted in his death.

After the war of 1812, Madison, Albert Gallatin, and other former opponents of the late Hamilton revived some of his federalizing programs, such as infrastructure, tariffs, and a standing Army and Navy. His Federalist and business-oriented economic visions for the country continue to influence party platforms to this day.

Reviews

[April Helms · Rating 5 out of 5]

YES! I have been reading this one off and on since the beginning of the year, so I consider this a big accomplishment. I'm glad I bought it, and glad I read it. It includes many of the documents mentioned in the Tony-award winning musical "Hamilton." It includes The Hurricane Letter, Farmer Refuted, The Federalist Papers, the letters between Burr and Hamilton that lead to the duel, and Hamilton's last letter to his wife Eliza. Yes, I cried reading that last one. The Federalist Papers took some time to get through. I'm really glad I read them; I think studying them should be a class in high school. I'm glad I read Chernow's biography on Hamilton last year, though, because a lot of what was then current-day references would have gone over my head (Hamilton gets more than a few digs on then New York Gov. George Clinton; the two men detested each other). But this was tough reading; you are talking about three of the greatest minds of the era. A pity Madison and Hamilton had such a falling out, for they complimented each other well: Hamilton's fiery prose, and Madison's more measured, point by point arguments. They would have been unstoppable on a debate team. What amazes me is the detail covered in these essays. If there were any stones left unturned, any argument left untouched, I couldn't find it. I'd love to see a class on this, perhaps with an annotated version to explain some of the historical references (and allusions to myths) contained within. It's tough reading, but worthwhile.

[Hillary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Federalist Papers took awhile by I recommend reading it in the actors’ voices at least for me it helps a lot.