Book Study: Alexander Hamilton, PART III

Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow


818 pages, New York Times #1 Bestseller, Chosen by the NY Times as one of the 10 best Books of the Year, the Inspiration for the Hit Broadway Musical

Penguin/Random House, 2005
Study Guides: Dialectic Journals (Annotations on Selected Passages from Each Chapter)
1. Prologue-Chapter 9: 51 pages, 20,090 words
2. Chapter 10-Chapter 18, 47 pages, 41,817 words
3. Chapter 19- Chapter 25, 23 pages, 8,764 words
4. Chapter 26-Epilogue: 55 pages, 20,820 words

Guardian Review: “The Man Behind the Musical,” 5 pages, 1430 words



New York Times, “Creating Capitalism,” David Brooks, 3 pages, 1639 words


PROLOGUE: The Oldest Revolutionary War Widow
ONE: The Castaways
TWO: Hurricane
THREE: The Collegian
FOUR: The Pen and the Sword
FIVE: The Little Lion
SIX: A Frenzy of Valor
SEVEN: The Lovesick Colonel
EIGHT: Glory
NINE: Raging Billows

TEN: A Grave, Silent, Strange Sort of Animal
ELEVEN: Ghosts.
TWELVE: August and Respectable Assembly
THIRTEEN: Publius
FOURTEEN: Putting the Machine in Motion
FIFTEEN: Villainous Business
SIXTEEN: Dr. Pangloss
SEVENTEEN: The First Town in America
EIGHTEEN: Of Avarice and Enterprise

NINETEEN: City of the Future
TWENTY: Corrupt Squadrons
TWENTY-ONE: Exposure
TWENTY-TWO: Stabbed in the Dark
TWENTY-THREE: Citizen Genêt
TWENTY-FOUR: A Disagreeable Trade
TWENTY-FIVE: Seas of Blood

TWENTY-SIX: The Wicked Insurgents of the West
TWENTY-SEVEN: Sugar Plums and Toys
TWENTY-EIGHT: Spare Cassius
TWENTY-NINE: The Man in the Glass Bubble
THIRTY: Flying Too Near the Sun
THIRTY-ONE: An Instrument of Hell
THIRTY-TWO: Reign of Witches
THIRTY-THREE: Works Godly and Ungodly
THIRTY-FOUR: In an Evil Hour
THIRTY-FIVE: Gusts of Passion
THIRTY-SIX: In a Very Belligerent Humor
THIRTY-SEVEN: Deadlock
THIRTY-EIGHT: A World Full of Folly
THIRTY-NINE: Pamphlet Wars
FORTY: The Price of Truth
FORTY-ONE: A Despicable Opinion
FORTY-TWO: Fatal Errand
FORTY-THREE: The Melting Scene
EPILOGUE: Eliza