{"product_id":"the-hamilton-scheme-an-epic-tale-of-money-and-power-in-the-american-founding-9781250390363","title":"The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow Alexander Hamilton embraced American oligarchy to jumpstart American prosperity. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrilling to the romance of becoming the one-man inventor of a modern nation, our first Treasury secretary fostered growth by engineering an ingenious dynamo--banking, public debt, manufacturing--for concentrating national wealth in the hands of a government-connected elite. Seeking American prosperity, he built American oligarchy. Hence his animus and mutual sense of betrayal with Jefferson and Madison--and his career-long fight to suppress a rowdy egalitarian movement little remembered today: the eighteenth-century white working class. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarshaling an idiosyncratic cast of insiders and outsiders, vividly dramatizing backroom intrigues and literal street fights--and sharply dissenting from recent biographies--William Hogeland's \u003ci\u003eThe Hamilton Scheme\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life Hamilton's vision and the hard-knock struggles over democracy, wealth, and the meaning of America that drove the nation's creation and hold enduring significance today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Hogeland\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books about the founding period, including \u003ci\u003eAutumn of the Black\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSnake\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Whiskey Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeclaration\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the essay collections \u003ci\u003eFounding Finance and Inventing American History\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e and publishes \u003ci\u003eHogeland's Bad History\u003c\/i\u003e on Substack.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298537799954,"sku":"9781250390363","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cb45eddb-f048-4c75-8959-83cc6cf622e2.jpg?v=1747826366","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hamilton-scheme-an-epic-tale-of-money-and-power-in-the-american-founding-9781250390363","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}