Alexander Hamilton

From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding....

Despite serving his country for 50 years and being among the most qualified men to hold the office of president, James Monroe is an oft-forgotten Founding Father. In this book, Brook Poston reveals how Monroe attempted to craft a legacy for himself as a champion of American republicanism....

This is the amazing true story of a real-life superhero who wore no cape and possessed no special powers—yet changed the world forever....

From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel Lavien Hamilton, the founding fathers’ mothers powerfully shaped their sons’ visions of domestic life...

A Magnificent Catastrophe tells the story of the most perverse, bizarre, nail-biting, and influential election battle ever in U.S. history: America's first true presidential campaign....

In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish....

Alexander Hamilton started his life in the British West Indies. His story seems like a classic tale from rags to riches, of a poor boy whose hard work and perseverance allowed him to become one of the greatest historical figures of a nation....

The thrilling romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler continues in the sizzling sequel to the New York Times best-selling Alex and Eliza: A Love Story....

John Ferling peers behind the traditional image of our first president, carefully burnished by Washington himself, to show us a leader who was not only not above politics but a canny infighter....

Born in the British West Indies, Hamilton arrived in New York as an "outsider". He fought in the Revolution and became Washington's most valuable aide-de-camp....

Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine’s famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New York Times bestseller Glenn Beck’s Common Sense....

Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution....

A series of brilliantly illuminating studies of the men who came to be known as the founding fathers....

The Federalist Papers appeared in book form in 1788 and are generally considered to be one of the most important contributions to political thought made in America. The authors discussed many general problems of politics in addition to the issues of the Constitution....

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—a fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American history—a Revolutionary War hero, vice president of the United States, and the man who killed Alexander Hamilton....

George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotten by history. But this new biography makes a convincing case to consider Mason an honored Founding Father....

VICTORIOUS in the War of American Independence, Alexander Hamilton and the founding fathers built the first successful democratic government....

The Jeffersonians is a complete chronicle of the men who served as president from 1801 to 1825 and implemented the foreign policy, domestic, and constitutional agenda of the radical wing of the American Revolution, setting guideposts for later American liberals to follow....

Richard Labunski offers a dramatic account of a time when the entire American experiment hung in the balance, only to be saved by the most unlikely of heroes....

Washington remains a distant figure to many Americans, a failing that acclaimed author Paul Johnson sets out to rectify with this brilliantly vivid, sharply etched portrait....