Alexander HamiltonThe #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
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... debt , a tax system , a central bank , a customs service , and a coast guard — and justifying them in some of America's most influential state papers , he set a high - water mark for administrative competence that has never been equaled ...
... debt and frittering away Rachel's fast dwindling inheritance . The marriage deteriorated to the point where the headstrong wife simply abandoned the house around 1750. A vindictive Lavien ranted in a subsequent divorce decree that while ...
... debt ridden , sneered at the softhearted notion that he had murdered the popular Mills , claiming that he had " killed him fairly according to the notions of honour prevailing among men . " 36 Barbot insisted that Mills had aimed his ...
... debt , he had been forced to cede his most recent plantation to two Jewish moneylenders and support himself as a plantation overseer while renting out his little clutch of slaves . In the interim , he had begun living with a woman who ...
... debt due from a man named Alexander Moir , who was returning to Europe and denied owing them money ; the resulting lawsuit was to drone on until January 1766. In the meantime , Rachel and the boys took up residence in Christiansted ...
Contents
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A Frenzy of Valor | 107 |
The Lovesick Colonel | 126 |
Raging Billows | 167 |
Ghosts | 203 |
August and Respectable Assembly | 219 |
A Disagreeable Trade | 448 |
The Wicked Insurgents of the West | 468 |
Sugar Plums and Toys | 482 |
The Man in the Glass Bubble | 517 |
An Instrument of Hell | 546 |
Works Godly and Ungodly | 580 |
In a Very Belligerent Humor | 619 |
A Despicable Opinion | 680 |
Publius | 243 |
Putting the Machine in Motion | 270 |
Villainous Business | 291 |
The First Town in America | 332 |
Stabbed in the Dark | 419 |
The Melting Scene | 710 |
Acknowledgments | 733 |
Notes | 739 |
Bibliography | 780 |