Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America #1

Award-winning author Teri Kanefield’s biography of Alexander Hamilton for young readers is the first in the Making of America series.

The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers. But Hamilton’s vision put him at odds with his archrivals wh...