Rise of a Founding Father

1. Alexander Hamilton BURR 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? LAURENS The ten-dollar founding father without a father

got a lot farther by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter,

by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter. JEFFERSON

And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the

waves, he struggled and kept his guard up. Inside, he was longing for