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Himself and i want to see what you could pull even from Something Like that. The first one i want to look at that i think gives you a gut sense of what he was thinking about at the time, what he was thinking of about america and what he thinks about when he thinks about the american government, its a memo that he wrote right after the constitutional convention. And leading up to it for a while, he had been one of the nations new leading nationalists, one of the earliest voices and loudest voices saying we need a stronger government. We need a stronger government. He was out there chiming away for this. You finally get the constitutional convention. You would think that hamilton would be like, yes, finally, we have a new constitution. Ive been wanting this all along and now finally were here. Okay. So to know what hes thinking, its a memo after the convention, he goes home and in a very lawyerly kind of way he sits down at his desk ....
Can you hear me ok . Thank you so much for being here today. We are really excited to have this book. Michael and i go back a few years now. I have been a big cheerleader of his for several years. It is exciting to have this conversation with you to learn more about this book. First, michael, why did you decide to write this book . I think that is the biggest question. Michael first, i want to thank the museum of American Finance for hosting this and organizing this. Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, is the most fascinating and remarkable founding father. Yet there is so much of his life that is uncertain, controversial. I started by just reading about hamilton, and i learned about all this controversy. What year was he born . What battle did he fight him . All the stuff we did not know. I basically read every book there is. I went to all the primary sources to determine wh ....
I wrote an oped in in the wall street journal i will be talking about that later on by an excited about that i want to know why that is important to tiein the theme of the book but the last time, let me back up if you dont know what socrateses in the city is a lot of people dont know what that is first of all, thank you for rappee of your early bird dinner and hustling to the tv i know is very tough and i appreciated it i have been on cspan before a they get my humor is okay. But i want to say this is the isocrates is in the city event normally i interview someone we have tons of videos of the interviewing extraordinary people. I cannot even think of the aisle list but if you go there you will see we had clad well. We had a share, jack carter burns and allen also George Plimpton the injures sisters the smothers brothers flip wilson. Added a and castillo that was of a cameo in the rich brothers break here of this stage i have inte ....