Tommy Storm by Aj Healy

Tommy Storm by Aj Healy

William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander. --J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of>Slouching Towards Utopia

How Alexander Hamilton embraced American oligarchy to jumpstart American prosperity.

Forgotten founder no more, Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name. Millions imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man's most dramatic battles and hardest-won achievements--as well as downplaying unsettling aspects of his legacy.

Thrilling to the romance of becoming the one-man inventor of a modern nation, our first Treasury secretary fostered growth by engineering an ingenious dynamo--banking, public debt, manufacturing--for concentrating national wealth in the hands of a government-connected elite. Seeking American prosperity, he built American oligarchy. Hence his animus and mutual sense of betrayal with Jefferson and Madison--and his career-long fight to suppress a rowdy egalitarian movement little remembered today: the eighteenth-century white working class.

Marshaling an idiosyncratic cast of insiders and outsiders, vividly dramatizing backroom intrigues and literal street fights--and sharply dissenting from recent biographies--William Hogeland's>The Hamilton Scheme brings to life Hamilton's vision and the hard-knock struggles over democracy, wealth, and the meaning of America that drove the nation's creation and hold enduring significance today.

BrilliantHilarious. An intergalactic Gulliver's Travels - Declan Kiberd * Declan Kiberd *
Tommy Storm is a knockout achievement that succeeds on so many levels and satirises so many cultural and literary genres that, to me, it reads as if Flann O'Brien had taken to writing science-fiction - Tony Hickey in Village magazine * Village magazine *

Alan Healy was born in Dublin and his life has taken many directions including jobs at Goldman Sachs in London and in a brick factory in South Africa before his life-long passion for writing culminated with his first novel - Tommy Storm. He self-published a first edition of the book in 2005 in Ireland. He now lives, happily married, back in Dublin.

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ISBN 13	9781847244253
ISBN 10	1847244254
Title	Tommy Storm
Author	A J Healy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hachette Children's Group
Year published	2008-03-06
Number of pages	464
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