Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton - Paperback

by Morton J. Frisch (Author)

This definitive, newly reissued collection is essential reading for anyone drawn to the American founding, the Constitution, and the birth of U.S. economic policy, gathering Alexander Hamilton's most consequential speeches, letters, and essays, from the Federalist Papers to his groundbreaking treasury writings, into one authoritative volume that reveals how a single founding father's ideas on executive power, national banking, and liberty still shape American government and finance today.

This most comprehensive and authoritative collection of essays, speeches, and articles by Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, edited by the political science scholar and author Morton J. Frisch, with a new introduction by Gary J. Schmitt and Adam J. White, is the best value, and low-priced edition on the market.

"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.

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.