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Hamilton: An American Prodigal

Messages by Desiring God

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The Rise and Fall of Hamilton

In 1786, he's the one who penned the letter calling delegates to a convention in Philadelphia. He also attended this Constitutional convention where he gave that six-hour speech. Under Hamilton's lead from 1789 to 1795, the Treasury Department drove the new government. And yet it was in this rapid rise, in his shooting up like a rocket that the cracks began to show.

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