Alexander Hamilton American or Out of Poverty

Alexander Hamilton, American

Author: Richard Brookhiser

Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. At last Hamilton has found a modern biographer who can bring him to full-blooded life; Richard Brookhiser. In these pages, Alexander Hamilton sheds his skewed image as the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," sex scandal survivor, and notoriously doomed dueling partner of Aaron Burr. Examined up close, throughout his meteoric and ever-fascinating (if tragically brief) life, Hamilton can at last be seen as one of the most crucial of the founders. Here, thanks to Brookhiser's accustomed wit and grace, this quintessential American lives again.

The New York Times Book Review - Michael R. Beschloss

A dramatic, compact biography that fairly gallops through Hamilton's picaresque life. Alexander Hamilton, American brilliantly succeeds in arguing that Hamilton deserves greater credit than he usually gets for his brain power, idealism, and vision.

National Review - Orlando Patterson

Richard Brookhiser's splendid biography…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.

The Wall Street Journal - James Grant

[A] wonderful portrait….Mr. Brookhiser has put his own intelligent stamp on the life of a great man.

USA Today - Gary Rawlins

A pithy and entertaining biography….In this bold reinterpretative study that throws down the gauntlet to Jefferson's disciples, Brookhiser ably pleads Hamilton's case before the bar of history….The author's achievement is to capture the full nature of a great but flawed man.

Table of Contents:

Contents

INTRODUCTION

1: ST. CROIX/MANHATTAN

2: WAR

3: LAWS

4: TREASURY SECRETARY

5: FIGHTING

6: LOSING

7: WORDS

8: RIGHTS

9: PASSIONS

10: DEATH

Notes

Index

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Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail

Author: Paul Polak

Based on his 25 years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does now, will end poverty. Polak shows that programs based on these ideas have utterly failed‹in fact, in sub-Saharan Africa poverty rates have actually gone up.

These failed top-down efforts contrast sharply with the grassroots approach Polak and IDE have championed: helping the dollar-a-day poor earn more money through their own efforts. Amazingly enough, unexploited market opportunities do exist for the desperately poor. Polak describes how he and others have identified these opportunities and have developed innovative, low-cost tools that have helped in lifting 17 million people out of poverty.

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