Alexander Hamilton, Perhaps Not Quite As You Recall from History Class
Silly Little Country (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
h/t Clive Davis again And Clive is right, this is brilliant.
Alexander Hamilton
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Weekend Song - “The Hamilton Mixtape”
Heretical Ideas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Alexander Hamilton was straight up gangsta. Awesome performance by Lin-Manuel Miranda from the perspective of Aaron Burr. That’s almost enough to make me a Hamilton fan. Not quite, though. Not quite. Anyone who’s read about John Adams’ Presidency cannot come out of that without a deep and abiding hatred for the monarchist, [...]
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Treasury & Risk Magazine’s 2009 Alexander Hamilton Awards Winners Announced
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than 250 senior corporate treasury and finance professionals from some of the nation’s largest companies converged on New York City on Oct. 28-29, 2009, to participate in Treasury & Risk magazine’s 14th Annual Alexander Hamilton Awards and Best Practices Summit. The event honors exceptional treasury and finance departments for their excellence...
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Video: The Hamilton Mixtape
the listenerd (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Lin-Manuel Miranda does a poetry jam thing at the White House on Alexander Hamilton – founding father, creator of the U.S. treasury, killer of Aaron Burr, inveterate schemer and man of notably diminutive stature. [fallows] Tagged: alexander hamilton, lin-manuel miranda, mixtape, music, poetry jam, video, white house, youtube
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Hip-Hop Hamilton
Englishman in New York (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It’s been a long time since I actually enjoyed hip-hop. Five or six years of being force fed gangsta rap from passing car stereos tends to do that to a person. So it was refreshing to see and appreciate Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop version of the life of Alexander Hamilton. I may have to take a [...]
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Alexander Hamilton, hip-hop icon
The Curious Capitalist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Really no commentary necessary, other than that I learned of it via Christopher Hayes (via a couple other people) on the Twitter:
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Today's urban youth love Alexander Hamilton
The Booth of Our Conniving (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
You heard it here first. Really, you did, a few days ago on this blog. Apparently I'm not the only one who has taken notice of "that guy on the ten," as he is most often called. I think I can safely say I'm on the cutting edge of a new era of Hamilton appreciation. But I guess this guy got there before me. Ch-ch-check it out:
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General Welfare Clause: Did Alexander Hamilton Waffle?
Simple Utah Mormon Politics (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Alexander Hamilton at one point in his political career seemed to have held a very limited view of the federal government's powers, believing that such things as "agriculture and manufacture" were under the purview of state governments. Not long after taking such a stand, he advocated the federal government's role in funding such pursuits. Did Hamilton change his tune?...
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Aaron Burr Killed Alexander Hamilton In Battle On 11thJuly 1804
kalyanim | 11/03/2009
At dawn on July 11 1804 , Burr, Hamilton, and their seconds met on the heights of Weehawken, New Jersey to resolve their growing rancor and animosity by fighting a duel
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Mr. President, Being King Isn't Always What It's Cracked Up To Be
Madison County Record (Free subscription) | yesterday
... King Obama doesn't work any better than King Washington, King Lincoln or King Truman, does it? Alexander Hamilton believed that the prohibition of titles of nobility in our Constitution was "the corner-stone of republican government; for so long as they are excluded, there can never be serious danger that the government will be any other than that of the people." Federalist...
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Let The Buyers Beware
Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I have neither time nor inclination to alert all the "dealers" who misrepresent provenance. I have seen an increase in misrepresentations lately. If a dealer can not site specific references to back up a claim do not buy from him. Here is how this dealer tap danced around his lack of accuracy: "Notably, volume bears the bookplate of "Alexander Hamilton", presumably...
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U.S. Constitution: Count Everyone
America's Right (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... citizens from non-citizens, nor do any of the contemporaneous writings from our founders. Alexander Hamilton wrote, in Federalist No. 36 , that "an actual census or enumeration of the people must furnish the rule, a circumstance which effectively shuts the door to partiality or oppression." George Washington, in a 1791 letter to Gouverneur Morris, cited the advantages of...
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The Original Economics Hip-Hop Hero
Economix (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Lin-Manuel Miranda pays tribute to Alexander Hamilton.
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P is for Presidents
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... to use portraits of Presidents, but the Secretary of the Treasury altered the plan to include Alexander Hamilton ($10 bill), who was the first Secretary of the Treasury; Salmon P. Chase ($10,000), who was Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War and "is credited with promoting our National Banking System"; and Benjamin Franklin ($100 bill), who was one of the signers...
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Gracie Mansion
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Archibald Gracie, the prosperous shipping magnate and distinguished civic pillar and co-founder with his chum Alexander Hamilton of the New York Evening Post, had a fine view of Hell Gate from the big country house he built on an East River promontory a day's ride up from South St., and the mansion was a center of federal New York's social life of the early 19th century until Gracie's...