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Pg.277 Notes
Pg.304 Suggested Reading
--Compilations
--Biographies
--Politics/Finance
--Duel (with Aaron Burr)
--Books for Kids
Pg.309 Acknowledgments
Pg.311 Index
Pg.319 Photo Credits

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Pg.262 Angelica Schuyler Church (wife' sister, affection)
Pg.268 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (wife, aka Eliza, aka Betsey)

Ends with last letter to wife as prep for duel that killed AH

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Pg.228 James Hamilton (brother)
Pg.229 The Hamilton Children
Pg.233 Marie Reynolds (the Affair)
Pg.239 Aaron Burr (the Duel)

For first time so far,
book author uses
history-revisionism propaganda label of
"Democratic-Republicans"
on Pg.241
(No such party ever existed!
It is a modern lie trying to pretend Jefferson's Republicans were connected to the Democrat Party)

Pg.252 "animadversion" (only time used)

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About "friend" John Laurens
died at end of war
Pg.223 "Were they or were they not lovers?"

Private Citizen, Public Power. Complete.

Controlled Pres JAdams Cabinet
JMonroe exposed AH adultery
Quasi Warw/ France
Believed Repubs aimed US to be of France
GW blackmailed Pres JAdams to make AH as GW 2nd
Gamed elections
Called Repubs "Antifederalist Party"
Sabotaged own Federalist Party -never elected Pres again
Supported INTERNAL REVENUE
Pg204 same as any modern "constitutional crisis" propaganda
Duel w/ ABurr

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NOTE:
Pg.188 TYPO
says that the subsequent letter is written
"To John Jay"
HOWEVER,
the Footnote #23 at end on next Pg.189
(as found on Page 293)
uses a bibliography saying it was rightly to
John ADAMS.
And this make more sense according to the context of the letter itself.

March 11, 2025

Foreign Affairs, and a Foolish One. Complete.

What was the "Foolish One?"
The Whiskey Rebellion?

Asks a valid question of what should US govt acknowledge treaties in France, & a King or a Republic?

Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality
said to be unconstitutional by US Republicans.
AH claims expansive view that, while Congress declares war, President maintains peace.

Tar & Feather

Resigned Secy Treasury

TYPO CORRECTION:

Federalist AH against Republicans TJ & JM

(Thomas Jefferson & James Madison)

The Secretary. Complete.

Manipulatd election make Adams only VP,
guarantee Washington elected Pres.

Secy Treasury at odds w/ Secys of State Jefferson, +James Madison.

Pushed National Bank &federal assumption of States' war debts

Supposedly persuaded Madison w/ agreemt
to move Capitol from NY to DC.

Pp96-100
expansive argmt to oppose:
"corporations not in Constitution"

Federalist AH against Republicans TK & JM

Nation Builder. Complete.

NY Law practice, defends Loyalists

AH asserts
"fear of a strong centralized govt...is a construct-an imaginary fear"

AH 5hr speech @ CConvention
proposing executive branch headed by "elected monarch"
Even his speech notes for speech (but not publicly said)
'consider proposing a hereditary chief executive"
A KING!

Wrote 51 of 85 Federalist Papers as PUBLIUS

Opposed Bill of Rights amndmts

Soldier and Statesman. Complete.

During Revolutionary War,
AH informs GWashington that AH seeks glory and requests a military command that gives him that opportunity.

GW grants it and AH does well.

AH writes to GW to warn of grumbling soldiers not getting their backpay, contributing to AH deeper opposition to the Confederation's rule with no Executive.

AH addresses GW as "Your Excellency" repeatedly.

The Student Turns Revolutionary. Complete.

Young AH writes letters as American revolutionary fires are getting stoked.

AH had a "fully developed fear of the mob mentality." (Pg.24)

"Bastard Brat of a Scottish Pedlar." Complete.

AH's mother was married to another man first who refused to divorce her.

2nd marriage with AH's father viewed as illegal.

In Carribbean, father failed business, deserted family when AH was 10 yo.

AH's mother died from a fever when AH was 12.

AH adopted by cousin who committed suicide a few months later.

1769, seeking glory, teen AH wrote, "I wish there was a war"

Introduction. Complete.
pp. ix - xvi

"unrepentant Elitist Alexander Hamilton"

"a closet monarchist and autocrat"

"representation of Loyalists after the Revolutionary War"

"early abolitionist"

"aristocratic tendencies"

"today's headlines show we continue to struggle with the visions of Hamilton & Jefferson - to find balance between centralized authority & individual liberty, ...fed authority & states' rights"