A reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton—arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation’s founders.

“Hamilton’s turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation, all against the richly evoked gritty background of the 18th century—Randall’s book is propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel.” — Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award-winning writer

Robert A. Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of Concord, Massachusetts, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.

A "highly readable" account that "describes the social changes that accompanied the country's swift development in its first decades of independence" (Publishers Weekly).

A “perceptive” biography of the first U.S. president that “deserves a place on every American’s bookshelf,” from a National Book Award–winning historian (New York Times Book Review).

“The most convincing evocation of the man and his deeds written within the compass of one book.” —Los Angeles Times