Download or read book Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox written by John Chester Miller and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1959 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Hamilton left an imprint upon this country that time has not effaced. Probably no American statesman since has displayed more audacity and a bolder and more constructive imagination. We can point to no one of his time so prodigal of ideas and so obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation.