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Ron Chernow, the well-known writer of Titan whom the Brand New York Times has named “as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we’ve observed in years,” vividly re creates the entire sweep of Alexander Hamilton’s violent life—his exotic, brutal upbringing; his titanic feuds with famed opponents; his critical role in determining the form of the us government and the National economy; his surprising illicit romances; his educated abolitionism; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804. Drawing upon substantial, unmatched research— including almost fifty formerly hidden documents featuring Hamilton’s hot writing in addition to his revealing missives to co-workers and friends—this resource of the extremely talented founding father who galvanized, inspired, and scandalized the newborn country may be the function through which all others is likely to be calculated.