His detailed reports as Secretary of the Treasury on the public credit, a national bank, and the encouragement of manufactures present a forward-looking vision of a country transformed by the power of financial markets, centralized banking, and industrial development. Included are all fifty-one of Hamilton’s contributions to The Federalist, as well as subsequent writings calling for a broad construction of federal power his famous speech to the Constitutional Convention, which gave rise to accusations that he favored monarchy and early writings supporting the Revolutionary cause and a stronger central government. His public and private writings, collected by The Library of America, demonstrate the perceptive intelligence, confident advocacy, driving ambition, and profound concern for honor and reputation that contributed both to his astonishing rise to fame and to his tragic early death.Īrranged chronologically, this volume contains more than 170 letters, speeches, pamphlets, essays, reports, and memoranda written between 17. As a military aide to George Washington, critic of the Articles of Confederation, proponent of ratification of the Constitution, first Secretary of the Treasury, and leader of the Federalist Party, Hamilton devoted himself to the creation of a militarily and economically powerful American nation guided by a strong, energetic republican government. One of the most vivid, influential, and controversial figures of the founding of America, Alexander Hamilton was an unusually prolific and vigorous writer.
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