Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father and Statesman (Signature Lives: Revolutionary War Era series) [Paperback]

Santella (Author), Andrew (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up | Series: Signature Lives: Revolutionary War Era

A biography profiling the life of Alexander Hamilton, a founding father of the United States and the first Secretary of the Treasury. Includes source notes and timeline.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-8–Considering the interesting, unusual lives these three larger-than-life heroes led, these biographies are surprisingly bland and uninspiring. Haugen recites events while failing to create a sense of who Hamilton, Allen, and Jones really were, and also fails to adequately summarize their contributions and significance. Her scholarship is suspect, given the number of errors and omissions as well as the large number of notes that are incorrectly cited and/or quoted. The maps are incomplete, and too many illustrations are old-fashioned and irrelevant. For Hamilton, use John Rosenburg's thorough, fascinating Alexander Hamilton (21st Century Bks, 2000); Veda Boyd Jones's Alexander Hamilton (Chelsea House, 1999) is adequate. Elaine Marie and Arthur B. Alphin's I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight (Carolrhoda, 2004) is the clearest and best written for this age level on Jones, but unfortunately ends after the Revolutionary War and uses modern drawings rather than contemporary illustrations. Alison Davis Tibbitts's John Paul Jones (Enslow, 2002) is passable but dull. Acceptable, error-free titles on Ethan Allen are hard to come by.–Ann W. Moore, Schenectady County Public Library, NY
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Compass Point Books; 1st edition (June 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756510732
• ISBN-13: 978-0756510732
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,717,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #75 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > People, A-Z > ( H ) > Hamilton, Alexander

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