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University Press returns with another short and captivating portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures, Alexander Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was a penniless orphan from a remote island in the Caribbean. Yet he went on to become one of the elite Founding Fathers of the United States, and, as America’s first Treasury Secretary, the founder of the nation’s financial system. A man of honor, conviction, and genius, Alexander was still not immune to scandal and conflict. His extra-marital affair deeply hurt his beloved wife and brought him ridicule from his political opponents. And his bitter dispute with Vice President Aaron Burr resulted in their famous duel – and in Hamilton’s violent and premature death. This short book tells the intensely human story of a man who changed the world in a way that no one else could.