The Hamilton scheme an epic tale of money and power in the American founding
"'Forgotten founder' no more, Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name. Millions imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic th...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Their fights, our fights
- Part I The hatching. Meet Alexander Hamilton
- Founding fatcat
- Exchanging eye-rolls
- In which we are introduced to the public debt of the United States
- Part II The first great American class war. Man in black
- Nothing commonsensical
- Never waste a crisis
- Peacetime
- The new Jerusalem
- Washington's county
- To annihilate all debts
- Part III The scheme and the system. The Hamilton constitution
- Ta-da!
- Breakup
- Industry and Rye
- Six Greek columns and a Roman pediment
- Part IV To extremes. The husband scheme
- Reason
- Enemies everywhere
- Too big to fail
- Uprising, crackdown
- Biblical
- Part V A scheme superseded! Albert Optimiste
- The Jesuit
- Triumvirate
- Albert Agonistes
- Epilogue: From the Jackson era to the New Deal to the Great White Way.
