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Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox

by John C. Miller. 662 pgs.

Contributors:

   John C. Miller

Publisher:

   Harper & Brothers

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1959

Subjects:

Hamilton, Alexander,--1757-1804

	Introduction	xi
1.	The Making of a Revolutionary	3
2.	Aide-de-Camp to Washington	17
3.	The Struggle Against Inflation	43
4.	The Quarrel with Washington	62
5.	Congress and the Army	83
6.	Law and the Loyalists	100
7.	"A Rage for Liberty"	111
8.	Democracy and Banking	120
	9."More Power to Congress"	131
10.	The Constitutional Convention (1)	151
11.	The Constitutional Convention (2)	171
12.	The Federalist	184
13.	The Rule of Law	193
14.	A More Perfect Union	206
15.	The First Secretary of the Treasury	219
16.	The Report on Public Credit	229
	17."Speculators" vs. "Patriots"	238
18.	The Bank of the United States	255
19.	The Report on Manufactures	278
20.	The Effort to Transform the American Economy	296
21.	The Opposition Emerges	311
22.	The Attack upon Hamilton	322
23.	Hamilton's Quarrel with Jefferson and Burr	343
24.	The Proclamation of Neutrality	363
25.	The War Clouds Gather	379
26.	The Whisky Rebellion	396
27.	Jay's Treaty	415
28.	The Election of 1796	435
29.	The Mission to France	451
30.	Second in Command of the United States Army	466
31.	The War That Refused to Come to a Boil	479
32.	The Effort to Avert Peace	493
33.	The Election of 1800	509
34.	A Prophet of Woe	533
35.	Defender of the Freedom of the Press	544
36.	The Duel with Burr	557
	Notes	577
	Bibliography	623
	Index	641

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