The Historian, March 22nd, 2005
Alexander Hamilton: A Life. By Willard Sterne Randall. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. Pp. xiii, 476. $32.50.) Having published a biography of Thomas Jefferson in 1993, the author of this book confronted the question of who was "right" about America: Jefferson or his chief political rival, Alexander Hamilton. That question inspired Willard Sterne Randall to write a biography of Hamilton, one of the most influential figures in shaping the new republic. Written primarily for the general reader, this book portrays the life of Hamilton from his illegitimate birth on the British West In...
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