——羅恩·徹諾：漢密爾頓傳——

講述被稱為美國資本主義革命先知的漢密爾頓跌宕起伏的人生

一篇扣人心絃的個人故事，一幅美國成長的全景畫面

亞歷山大·漢密爾頓參與了美國獨立戰爭、制憲會議、又作為美國首任財政部長參與了美利堅合眾國的政府體制的建立。他對美國的影響，恐怕要比許多總統還要深遠。

◆◆漢密爾頓集思想家和實幹家於一身。他和詹姆斯·麥迪遜是美國製憲會議的主要推動者，他們的作品《聯邦黨人文集》堪稱美國憲法精神的經典詮釋。

◆◆作為美國首任財政部長和新政府架構的主要建築師，漢密爾頓設計了能讓一個現代民族國家平穩運轉的整套機制，包括政府預算體系、國家長期債務體系、聯邦税務制度、中央銀行、海關係統和海岸警衞隊。憑藉這些舉措，他為“行政能力”設定了一個極高的標準，至今無人能望其項背。

如果説是傑斐遜譜寫了美國政治論述的必要華麗詩篇，那麼可以説是漢密爾頓擬就了美國的治國術散文。漢密爾頓被稱為美國資本主義革命的先知。

從在尼維斯島作為一個私生子來到人間，到躺在威霍肯決鬥場的血泊中，他從一個苦惱的小職員變身為美國首任財政部長，亞歷山大·漢密爾頓的人生跌宕起伏，彷彿出自富想象力的小説家筆下。

在美國曆史上，鮮有人物像漢密爾頓那樣同時引發諸多謳歌和詛咒。有人認為，漢密爾頓的野心、自負和傲慢註定讓他成為這個國家的梟雄；也有人將他描繪成財閥的走狗、潛在的暴君。然而，縱覽美國曆史上未曾擔任過總統的政治人物，漢密爾頓可能極為重要的一位。

如今，正如他所預見的那樣，我們生活在一個充斥着貿易、工業、股市和銀行的繁榮世界。在對未來聯邦政府的形態和權力的設想方面，他的預言也同樣成為現實。漢密爾頓似乎是來自未來——我們所生活的這個時代——的信使。我們對他的遺產的評判，在許多方面，就是對現代社會的評判。

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.

羅恩·徹諾 Ron Chernow

美國國家人文獎章獲得者，《財富》雜誌稱其為“美國傳記作家的代表者”。

羅恩·徹諾的作品曾經榮獲：美國國家圖書獎、普利策獎、美國曆史圖書獎、美國書評人獎、喬治·華盛頓圖書獎、普利策委員會國際傳記作家獎、喬治·埃克而斯獎、美國國家圖書館年度作品獎，他的作品入選“20世紀100部非虛構作品”“《福布斯》20本有影響力商業書籍”和“《財富》75本推薦圖書”。