——罗恩·彻诺：汉密尔顿传——

讲述被称为美国资本主义革命先知的汉密尔顿跌宕起伏的人生

一篇扣人心弦的个人故事，一幅美国成长的全景画面

亚历山大·汉密尔顿参与了美国独立战争、制宪会议、又作为美国首任财政部长参与了美利坚合众国的政府体制的建立。他对美国的影响，恐怕要比许多总统还要深远。

◆◆汉密尔顿集思想家和实干家于一身。他和詹姆斯·麦迪逊是美国制宪会议的主要推动者，他们的作品《联邦党人文集》堪称美国宪法精神的经典诠释。

◆◆作为美国首任财政部长和新政府架构的主要建筑师，汉密尔顿设计了能让一个现代民族国家平稳运转的整套机制，包括政府预算体系、国家长期债务体系、联邦税务制度、中央银行、海关系统和海岸警卫队。凭借这些举措，他为“行政能力”设定了一个极高的标准，至今无人能望其项背。

如果说是杰斐逊谱写了美国政治论述的必要华丽诗篇，那么可以说是汉密尔顿拟就了美国的治国术散文。汉密尔顿被称为美国资本主义革命的先知。

从在尼维斯岛作为一个私生子来到人间，到躺在威霍肯决斗场的血泊中，他从一个苦恼的小职员变身为美国首任财政部长，亚历山大·汉密尔顿的人生跌宕起伏，仿佛出自富想象力的小说家笔下。

在美国历史上，鲜有人物像汉密尔顿那样同时引发诸多讴歌和诅咒。有人认为，汉密尔顿的野心、自负和傲慢注定让他成为这个国家的枭雄；也有人将他描绘成财阀的走狗、潜在的暴君。然而，纵览美国历史上未曾担任过总统的政治人物，汉密尔顿可能极为重要的一位。

如今，正如他所预见的那样，我们生活在一个充斥着贸易、工业、股市和银行的繁荣世界。在对未来联邦政府的形态和权力的设想方面，他的预言也同样成为现实。汉密尔顿似乎是来自未来——我们所生活的这个时代——的信使。我们对他的遗产的评判，在许多方面，就是对现代社会的评判。

A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.

In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.”

Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time.

 “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.

Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.

Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.

罗恩·彻诺 Ron Chernow

美国国家人文奖章获得者，《财富》杂志称其为“美国传记作家的代表者”。

罗恩·彻诺的作品曾经荣获：美国国家图书奖、普利策奖、美国历史图书奖、美国书评人奖、乔治·华盛顿图书奖、普利策委员会国际传记作家奖、乔治·埃克而斯奖、美国国家图书馆年度作品奖，他的作品入选“20世纪100部非虚构作品”“《福布斯》20本有影响力商业书籍”和“《财富》75本推荐图书”。