The Hamilton Scheme ; an epic tale of money and power in the American founding

"William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander." —J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Slouching Towards UtopiaHow Alexander Hamilton embraced American oligarchy to jumpstart American prosperity. "Forgotten founder" no more, Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name. Millions imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man's most dramatic battles and hardest-won achievements—as well as downplaying unsettling aspects of his legacy. Thrilling to the romance of becoming the one-man inventor of a modern nation, our first Treasury secretary fostered growth by engineering an ingenious... Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph Introduction: Their Fights, Our Fights Part I. The Hatching 1. Meet Alexander Hamilton 2. Founding Fatcat 3. Exchanging Eye-rolls 4. In Which We Are Introduced to the Public Debt of the United States Part II. The First Great American Class War 5. Man in Black 6. Nothing Commonsensical 7. Never Waste a Crisis 8. Peacetime 9. The New Jerusalem 10. Washington’s County 11. To Annihilate All Debts Part III. The Scheme and the System 12. The Hamilton Constitution 13. Ta-da! 14. Breakup 15. Industry and Rye 16. Six Greek Columns and a Roman Pediment Part IV. To Extremes 17. The Husband Scheme 18. Reason 19. Enemies Everywhere 20. Too Big to Fail 21. Uprising, Crackdown 22. Biblical Part V. A Scheme Superseded? 23. Albert Optimiste 24. The Jesuit 25. Triumvirate 26. Albert Agonistes Epilogue: From the Jackson Era to the New Deal to the Great White Way Notes Sources Acknowledgments Index Also by William Hogeland A Note About the Author Newsletter Sign-up Copyright