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National Review: Books, Arts, & Manners Orlando Patterson on Richard Brookhiser's Alexander Hamilton, American April 19, 1999 Issue
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"Duel Loyalty
ORLANDO PATTERSON
Mr. Patterson is a professor of sociology at Harvard University and the author most recently of Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries.
W HILE it might be an exaggeration to call Alexander Hamilton America's "forgotten" founder, it is certainly true that he has been unfairly overshadowed by the monumental images of Jefferson, Washington, and even Madison. The reason could hardly be a lack of sources, since he wrote more voluminously than any other of the Founders and is the major author of the Federalist Papers. Nor could it be a want of interesting things to say about him, since the man not only led a perhaps too engrossing and varied life, but arguably did more than any of the other Founding Fathers except Washington to shape the future course of the nation: its political and legal systems, its commercial institutions, its tradition of public discourse, and its press. It is common knowledge that he has been badly served by scholars. Astonishingly, Forrest McDonald's biography was, until now, the only first-rate study in print, and though Hamilton's arresting image graces our ten- dollar bill, he has not become an icon. Why?
Richard Brookhiser's splendid biography comes closer than anything else to providing an answer and succeeds in doing what no other work has quite done before: provide a portrait of Hamilton that brings out the true genius of the man in a volume that is both elegantly written and accessible to a mass audience.
In just 240 pages, Brookhiser distills the major points in Hamilton's extraordinary life, from his precocious teenage years in St. Croix and youth in Manhattan, through his form"
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