Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Naperville, IL, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781492609834
Description: From the Introduction...

Theirs was an unlikely alliance, for George Washington and Alexander Hamilton could not have been more different. Washington was a gentleman farmer from the patrician colony of Virginia and the owner of a great estate enriched by the labor of African slavery. As a rising member of the Virginia gentry, he satisfied the expectations of his station by entering into public service. Hamilton, on the other hand, was an illegitimate child--the “bastard brat of a Scotch peddler,” as John Adams brusquely put it once--and an immigrant from the West Indies. A self-made man, he made his way to America on his own and earned his positions in the army and the government. Despite their differences, Washington and Hamilton shared a lot of common ground. They collaboratively pursued their vision of a continental republic throughout the Revolutionary War and through the founding of the nation. They both embraced the revolutionary ideals of the era, though with Hamilton usually playing a subordinate role to Washington, who was seen as essential to the successful creation of America.
Table of contents: label: Introduction; label: Chapter One
title: "I Heard Bullets Whistle": Young George Washington; label: Chapter Two
title: "I Wish There Was a War": Young Alexander Hamilton; label: Chapter Three
title: "We Must Assert Our Rights": The Growth of Revolutionary Ideology; label: Chapter Four
title: Revolutionary Band of Brothers; label: Chapter Five
title: A Continental Republic; label: Chapter Six
title: Two Roads to Philadelphia; label: Chapter Seven
title: Winning Ratification; label: Chapter Eight
title: The Indispensable President; label: Chapter Nine
title: A Time of “Folly and Madness”; label: Chapter Ten
title: "Enough to Melt a Monument of Marble"; label: Postscript
title: The Indispensable Alliance; label: Acknowledgments; label: Notes; label: Bibliography; label: About the Authors