Selected Writings and Speeches Of Alexander Hamilton

“Anyone interested in the history of our country, of our earliest attempts to form a viable government, of our Constitution—indeed, of our national banking system—will surely want to read Professor Frisch’s volume on Alexander Hamilton’s writings and speeches.”

—Willard C. Butcher, Chase Manhattan Bank

The definitive edition, collecting the most essential speeches by Alexander Hamilton, his essays, letters and articles which helped to forge the Constitution and shape the destiny of the United States of America, into one accessible and substantial volume.
 

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.