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Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

$805

ISBN:9780143034759
作者:Ron Chernow
出版社:Penguin
出版日期:2005/03/15
尺寸:233x151x45mm

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In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.”Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804. 


歷經數十年,第一本關於亞歷山大.漢彌爾頓的完整傳記終於完成了!作者 Ron Chernow 筆下引人入勝的人物故事,講述漢彌爾頓如何排除萬難,塑造激勵新生的美國,卻又因誹聞不斷而招致反感。歷史學家 Joseph Ellis 讚譽本書將「亞歷山大‧漢彌爾頓描寫得絲絲入扣,他絕頂聰明、獨具魅力且狡猾的特質表露無遺,是我看過最好的作品。」美國歷史上很少有其他人物像亞歷山大‧漢彌爾頓一樣如此具爭議性,深受誤解。Ron Chernow 在本書中陳述事實,為漢彌爾頓平反,更表示正因為漢彌爾頓自我犧牲,大力聲援一些爭議不斷的政策,才有美國今日的政治成就和經濟繁榮。他寫道:「拒絕承認漢彌爾頓的貢獻,從各個層面來說,便是拒絕現代世界。」書中也提及漢彌爾頓顛沛流離的一生。他是私生子,一個來自加勒比海的孤兒,從小多半自學,後來一躍成為美國大陸軍總司令喬治.華盛頓的副官,與他人共同撰寫了《聯邦論》,創辦紐約銀行,帶領聯邦黨,還是美國第一任財政部長。關於美國的誕生,歷史學家們往往認為傑佛遜的民主理想高於漢彌爾頓建立強大聯邦政府的主張,但作者為漢彌爾頓刻畫出一個截然不同的形象;他的非凡雄心不只是為了利己,而是出自愛國心和想讓美國繁榮壯大的堅定意志。Ron Chernow為讀者呈現出漢彌爾頓不為人知的一面,像是他對出身的自卑、心中的遠大抱負、與童年好友的親密友誼、和傑佛遜、麥迪遜、亞當斯、門羅、伯爾等政治人物的巨大衝突、與 Maria Reynolds 廣為人知的婚外情,以及和忠貞妻子 Eliza 的甜蜜婚姻生活。書中也詳加說明 1804 年 7 月漢彌爾頓和當時的美國副總統艾倫.伯爾有名的決鬥事件,以及漢彌爾頓懸而未決的死亡真相。



 

 

Alexander Hamilton

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