Hamilton: The Man Who Invented America | 5 Minute Video
Alexander Hamilton: You know the name, but what do you know about the man? Joseph Tartakovsky, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, details how Hamilton took a country with no past and envisioned its future.
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Script:
It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that Alexander Hamilton invented the United States of America.
George Washington was the guiding star; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary; and Benjamin Franklin, the sage. But Hamilton was the pragmatist, the man who got it done.
This most self-made of self-made men took a country with no past and planned its future.
He was born on January 11, 1755 on the island of Nevis. This was not the Caribbean of your cruise fantasy—quite the contrary. As Ron Chernow writes in his biography of Hamilton, “While other founding fathers were reared in tidy New England villages or cosseted on baronial Virginia estates, [Hamilton] grew up in a tropical hellhole…”
Sugar plantation slave auctions were a regular feature of island life. The spectacle—buyers swinging branding irons as they surveyed the human “merchandise”—made a permanent impression on Hamilton: He was a fierce abolitionist his entire life.
Abandoned by his father at an early age, his mother died of yellow fever when he was 14, leaving the teenage boy destitute. A local judge had to buy him shoes so that he could attend her funeral.
He soon took a job as clerk for a local merchant. Before long, he was running the business—coordinating shipments of mules and codfish, calculating currency exchanges, and advising sea captains on how to deal with pirates. It was an unmatchable apprenticeship in trade, credit, and commerce.
In 1773, he arrived in New York to attend King’s College, the forerunner of today’s Columbia University. Swept up in the revolutionary fervor of his adopted country, he dropped out to join the Continental Army.
He quickly came to the attention of George Washington, who made him a staff officer. The sonless Washington called the fatherless Hamilton “my boy.” Fellow officers later remembered “Call Colonel Hamilton” as Washington’s instinctive utterance when important news arrived.
As Washington’s trusted aide, he was involved in every aspect of running the war, including actual fighting, where he distinguished himself on multiple occasions. But more than anything, it was his dealings with the weak and indecisive Continental Congress that shaped his political views.
The problem with the Congress, in Hamilton’s view, was that too few members took the idea of nationhood seriously. They quarreled over their narrow interests rather than uniting over the national interest.
As the war was winding down, Hamilton laid out the choice before the country in a widely read six-part essay. We could become a “noble and magnificent” federal republic, he wrote, “closely linked in the pursuit of a common interest…” or we could stumble ahead as a “number of petty states, with the appearance only of union…”
It was clear where Hamilton stood.
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Gotta love the shoehorned line that perhaps Hamilton would have thought the federal government has too much power now, with nothing to back up that statement.
Alexzander Hamilton on the 10 dollar bill 💵 secretary of the 💰 money treasury.
Jefferson on TOP, I am a gigachad State right fan
I fought Hamilton was the GOAT guy from Formula 1 😂😂😂
My blood.
Hamilton supported strong government just like the early republican party supported it. They wanted to unite america and help big businesses/industrialization. On the other hand Jefferson supported small gov and states rights for common people and farmers. He was against industrialization but also against crony capitalism. Therefore regardless of who supported big/small gov,its seems that Hamilton is more conservative and Jefferson liberal. I don’t think Jefferson would like social programs by the gov so much, but he would definetely prefer social programs than government helping the rich
Funny enough, it seems Hamilton wanted the President of the US to serve for life. Had he succeeded, the United States, in effect, would be an elective monarchy.
very good video ! 😄😁😀😆😅🤣😂🖕
Im crying how he died 😭
Fux Alexander Hamilton, started the corrupt central banking system in the U.S and he partnerr with the rothschild family. Traitor, thomas jefferson was better
We're all waiting on anouther Hamilton.
"Invented"
Weird way to spell "Tainted"
He and Aaron Burr deserved each other.
Honestly, kinda weird that neoclassical radical like Parager did a video about Hamilton who basically strenghtened and perfected List views on an economy. Protectionism till emering industries get better, state intervention.
Chernows biography is the second greatest Hamilton biography.
Alexander Hamilton, my beloved hero,was the second most important founding father.
Burr created the standard by which American politicians have stood by since that time 😂
Quelled over their narrow interests of the national interest…….nothing much has changed then ❤
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot
In the Caribbean by providence impoverished In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
Alexander Hamilton IS BLACK 🖤
Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!
New Yorkers getting it done.
Dick Cheney. The 2nd Vice President to shoot a man in the face.
Washington will always be the prime reason why America exists but Hamilton is the father of American capitalism.