Richard Sylla���s review of Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years

“Covering Hamiltons background, birth, and youth in the West Indies and his first decade in the United States, Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years details Hamiltons emergence as a revolutionary pamphleteer, military leader, General Washingtons principal, ablest, and most trusted aide-de-camp, and hero of the decisive Yorktown campaign. With encyclopedic knowledge of Hamiltons life and career and all that has been written about it, including the many contradictions, Michael E. Newton judic...