Alexander Hamilton
This one-volume biography of the Founding Father charts Alexander Hamilton`s career and accomplishments, which included serving as a close aide to General Washington in the Continental Army and as the first Secretary of the Treasury, as well as being co-author of The Federalist Papers. Randall also reveals a man of pleasures whose aristocratic airs brought out strong (and often negative) feelings in others--and which ultimately led to his death in a duel with Burr in 1804.

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