Volume 25, Number 7 · May 4, 1978
The Outsider
By Edmund S. Morgan
The Young Hamilton: A Biography
by James Thomas Flexner
Little, Brown, 497 pp., $15.00
Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure, only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury. James Flexner, fresh from his triumphant biography of Washington, now gives us Hamilton, but not Hamilton the founding father. This is an even younger Hamilton, his career traced only to the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, when he had reached the age of twenty-six.
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