Excerpt from Alexander Hamilton, And, Robert FultonOn page 102 I have stated the propositions about the relation of the man to his work, which seem to me to give the clew to Hamilton's career.Hamilton's work went to the making of the Ameri can State, but personally he may be said to have failed, for when death overtook him he had no poli tical future, and could have had none, unless he could have readjusted himself entirely to the conditions of American public life. On pages 2 38, 241, 244, and 245 I have tried to show why this was so.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.