Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton - Paperback

by Morton J. Frisch (Author)

Alexander Hamilton was truly a rare combination: active influential politician and powerful original thinker.

He played a critical role in the formation of the United States as delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; coauthor, with James Madison and John Jay, of the Federalist Papers; and the first secretary of the treasury.

His economic writings contributed to the transformation of America from a handful of small, isolated agrarian states into the powerful industrial nation of today.

His writings on the presidency helped shape an office at once powerful enough to deal with the major problems of domestic and foreign policy and yet not so powerful as to threaten political liberty.

Here, in one volume, are the most important of Hamilton's political and economic writings and speeches.

Reissued 40 years after its first publication, this compendium now includes a new introductory essay by Adam J. White and Gary J. Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute.

Author Biography

Morton J. Frisch (1924-2007) was a professor of political science at Northern Illinois University and the author of Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Contribution of the New Deal to American Political Thought and Practice. He was also a coeditor of American Political Thought: The Philosophic Dimensions of American Statesmanship and The Political Thought of American Statesmen: Selected Writings and Speeches.