Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary

Name: Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Martha Brockenbrough
ISBN: 9781427290342

Author: Martha Brockenbrough

Narrator: Chris Ciulla

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners

Published: 09/05/2017

Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Political Biography, History, Us History

Synopsis

From Martha Brockenbrough, award winning author of The Game of Love and Death, comes an intimate new YA audiobook focusing on the private life of Alexander Hamilton. Complex, passionate, brilliant, flawed—America's favorite Founding Father comes alive in this exciting biography.

He was born out of wedlock on a small island in the West Indies and orphaned as a teenager. From those inauspicious circumstances, he rose to a position of power and influence in colonial America.

Discover this founding father's incredible true story: his brilliant scholarship and military career; his groundbreaking and enduring policy, which shapes American government today; his salacious and scandalous personal life; his heartrending end.

Richly informed by Hamilton's own writing, Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary is an in-depth biography of an extraordinary man.

About Martha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough draws on her diverse experience in journalism, research, nonfiction, and literary teen fiction to bring Alexander Hamilton to life in Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary. A powerful storyteller and narrative voice, Brockenbrough is also the author of the critically acclaimed YA novels The Game of Love and Death and Devine Intervention. She enjoys reading Hamilton's original correspondence, playing board games, and spending time with her family. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

This is an exceptional biographical story of Alexander Hamilton. While it's aimed at teens and young adults, and I haven't fit into those categories for some time, I found myself gripped by the narrative momentum and utterly engrossed in the personal story of this exceptional man. What you realize i......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I've read the Chernow, and it was great, but this just became my go-to biography to recommend to anyone. It's very well-written, with a lively voice, with excellent pictures and maps, a bibliography, as well as other appendices talking about Revolutionary War weaponry, the slave trade, the sugar tra......more

Goodreads review by David

Alexander Hamilton...My name is Alexander Hamilton...There's a million things I haven't done...Just you wait, just you wait... So you've seen the play--the one that took Broadway by storm a few years ago--and you think you have a handle on everything you need to know about the man. But if you really......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

Finally a history book that isn't boring! This book flowed nicely, the chapters were short, and it is written in a way that makes Alexander Hamilton feel like someone you have met. More biographies on historical people and events should be written like this so anyone can enjoy it, not just historian......more

Goodreads review by Kayla

The only reason this is four stars and not five for is because it took me way to long to finish it and I think that partly is because the font color in the book is a light brown which was really hard on the eyes. But the actual writing was really good, very easy to read even though i did end up list......more