"The long tradition of Hamilton biography has, almost without exception, been laudatory in the extreme. Facts have been exaggerated, moved around, omitted, misunderstood and imaginatively created. The effect has been to produce a spotless champion...Those little satisfied with this reading of American history have struck back by depicting Hamilton as a devil devoted to undermining all that was most characteristic and noble in American life." James Thomas Flexner, The Young Hamilton, pp. 3–4.
Ellis, Joseph J. His Excellency: George Washington. (2004).
Flexner, James Thomas. The Young Hamilton: A Biography. Fordham University Press, (1997) (ISBN 0-8232-1790-6).
Fleming, Thomas. Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America. (2000) (ISBN 0-465-01737-1).
McDonald, Forrest. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography(1982) (ISBN 0-393-30048-X), biography focused on intellectual history esp on AH's republicanism.
Miller, John C. Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox (1959), full-length scholarly biography; online edition
Mitchell, Broadus. Alexander Hamilton (2 vols., 1957–62), the most detailed scholarly biography; also published in abridged edition
Randall, Willard Sterne. Alexander Hamilton: A Life. HarperCollins, (2003) (ISBN 0-06-019549-5). Popular.
Don Winslow Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown (Script and Film New York Historical Society).
Specialized studies
Adair, Douglas, and Marvin Harvey: "Was Alexander Hamilton a Christian Statesman?]" The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 12, No. 2, Alexander Hamilton: 1755–1804. (Apr., 1955), pp. 308–29. in JSTOR
Austin, Ian Patrick.Common Foundations of American and East Asian Modernisation: From Alexander Hamilton to Junichero Koizumi. Select Books. Singapore (2009)
Brown, Christopher Leslie, and Philip D. Morgan, eds. Arming slaves: from classical times to the modern age, esp. 180–208 on the American Revolution, by Morgan and A. J. O'Shaubhnessy.
Douglas Ambrose and Robert W. T. Martin, eds. The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life & Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father (2006).
Brant, Irving: The Fourth President: a Life of James Madison. Bobbs-Merill, 1970. A one-volume recasting of Brant's six-volume life.
Burns, Eric. Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. (2007).
Chan, Michael D. "Alexander Hamilton on Slavery." Review of Politics 66 (Spring 2004): 207–31.
Fatovic, Clement. "Constitutionalism and Presidential Prerogative: Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian Perspectives." American Journal of Political Science 2004 48(3): 429–44. Issn: 0092-5853 Fulltext in Swetswise, Ingenta, Jstor, Ebsco.
Flaumenhaft; Harvey. The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution in the Thought of Alexander Hamilton Duke University Press, 1992.
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington. Little Brown, 1965–72. Four volumes, with various subtitles, cited as "Flexner, Washington". Vol. IV. ISBN 0316286028.
Harper, John Lamberton. American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy. (2004).
Horton, James Oliver. "Alexander Hamilton: Slavery and Race in a Revolutionary Generation" New York Journal of American History 2004 65(3): 16–24. ISSN 1551-5486 online version.
Kennedy, Roger G. ; Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character Oxford University Press (2000).
Knott, Stephen F. Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth University Press of Kansas, (2002) ISBN 0-7006-1157-6.
Kohn, Richard H. "The Inside History of the Newburgh Conspiracy: America and the Coup d'État"; The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 188–220. JSTOR link. A review of the evidence on Newburgh; despite the title, Kohn is doubtful that a coup d'état was ever seriously attempted.
Larsen, Harold. "Alexander Hamilton: The Fact and Fiction of His Early Years]" The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 9, No. 2. (Apr., 1952), pp. 139–51. [in JSTOR
Littlefield, Daniel C. "John Jay, the Revolutionary Generation, and Slavery." New York History 2000 81(1):91–132. ISSN 0146-437X.
Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr, the Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756–1805. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. ISBN 0374100160. First volume of two, but this contains Hamilton's lifetime.
Martin, Robert W.T. "Reforming Republicanism: Alexander Hamilton's Theory of Republican Citizenship and Press Liberty." Journal of the Early Republic 2005 25(1):21–46. Issn: 0275-1275 Fulltext online in Project Muse and Ebsco.
McManus, Edgar J. History of Negro Slavery in New York. Syracuse University Press, 1966.
Mitchell, Broadus: "The man who 'discovered' Alexander Hamilton". Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 1951. 69:88–115.
Monaghan, Frank: John Jay. Bobbs-Merrill (1935).
Nettels, Curtis P. The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775–1815 (1962).
Newman, Paul Douglas: Fries's Rebellion; The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Rakove, Jack N. The beginnings of National Politics: an interpretive history of the Continental Congress, Knopf, 1979.
Rossiter, Clinton. Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution (1964).
Sharp, James. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis. (1995), survey of politics in 1790s.
Sheehan, Colleen. "Madison V. Hamilton: The Battle Over Republicanism And The Role Of Public Opinion" American Political Science Review 2004 98(3): 405–24.
Smith, Robert W. Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy. (2004).
Staloff, Darren. "Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding." (2005).
Stourzh, Gerald. Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Government (1970).
Stryker, William S[cudder]: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton; Houghton Mifflin, 1898.
Thomas, Charles Marion: American neutrality in 1793; a study in cabinet government, Columbia, 1931.
Trees, Andrew S. "The Importance of Being Alexander Hamilton." Reviews in American History 2005 33(1): 8–14. Issn: 0048-7511 Fulltext: in Project Muse.
Trees, Andrew S. The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character. (2004).
Wallace, David Duncan: Life of Henry Laurens, with a sketch of the life of Lieutenant-Colonel John Laurens Putnam (1915).
Weston, Rob N. "Alexander Hamilton and the Abolition of Slavery in New York". Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 1994 18(1): 31–45. ISSN 0364-2437 An undergraduate paper, which concludes that Hamilton was ambivalent about slavery.
White, Leonard D. The Federalists (1949), coverage of how the Treasury and other departments were created and operated.
White, Richard D. "Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic" Public Administration Review, Vol. 60, 2000.
Wood, Gordon s. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (2009), the most recent synthesis of the era
Wright, Robert E. Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic (2002).
Wright, Robert E. One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe New York: McGraw-Hill (2008).
Primary sources
Hamilton, Alexander. (Joanne B. Freeman, ed.) Alexander Hamilton: Writings (2001), The Library of America edition, 1108 pages. ISBN 978-1-93108204-4; all of Hamilton's major writings and many of his letters
Syrett, Harold C.; Cooke, Jacob E.; and Chernow, Barbara, eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (27 vol, Columbia University Press, 1961–87); includes all letters and writing by Hamilton, and all important letters written to him; this is the definitive edition of Hamilton's works, intensively annotated.
Goebel, Julius, Jr., and Smith, Joseph H., eds., The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton (5 vols., Columbia University Press, 1964–80); the legal counterpart to the Papers of Alexander Hamilton.
Morris, Richard. ed. Alexander Hamilton and the Founding of the Nation (1957), excerpts from AH's writings
Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton. Morton J. Frisch ed. (1985).
The Works of Alexander Hamilton edited by Henry Cabot Lodge (1904) full text online at Google Booksonline in HTML edition. This is the only online collection of Hamilton's writings and letters. Published in 10 volumes, containing about 1.3 million words.
