Alexander Hamilton
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Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURESDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS
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DVD Review: E Pluribus Unum "Out of many, one" in large measure, to Alexander Hamilton.
Summary: 4 Stars
Marc Soloman, portraying Mr. Hamilton in short takes herein, does a great job conveying emotion as he speaks directly in the camera to us in this rather well-done PBS production probing the character of a hero of the American Revolution and architect of America's financial system.
The camera, in one particular take, while showing the room behind him too, draws in on a facial expression of Mr. Soloman that just beams with the self-confidence and insecurities of a self-made man. For a moment, it's almost as if Hamilton himself has been caught on film, as Soloman petitions us thusly: "Why has government been instituted at all?"......"Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without restraint."
Later Soloman continues to quote Hamilton that "order is the key to [personal] liberty."
Oh, so was a royalist, was he? Jefferson thought he was, or at least tried to tar him with that moniker because Jefferson continued to imbibe of the Spirit of 76 even after the 1787 'Miracle at Philadelphia,' at least in part, superseded it. Regarding "the dangers of maintaining a continuous revolutionary mentality in America, Hamilton believed that revolutions ended in tyranny because they glorified revolution as a permanent state of mind. The spirit of compromise and a concern with order were needed to balance the quest for liberty. That's why Hamilton penned the Federalist Papers (enlisting support from Madison and, to a lesser extent, John Jay) to champion the proposed American Constitution; a constitution designed to check unfettered passions from going the way that the French Revolution did just a few years hence. "More than anyone else Hamilton engineered the transition to a post-war political culture that valued sound and efficient government as the most reliable custodian of liberty, calling such an effort an object of all others the nearest and most dear to my own heart." Hamilton was the greatest policy maker of the day. "Alexander Hamilton belonged to the future." We still live in Hamilton's world, built on bonds and banks; on capitalism and the personal freedom that such a system engenders and protects.
Hamilton understood finance (unlike Jefferson the gentlemen farmer, who lived beyond his means and was less than successful in this endeavor and who desired America to be nation peopled primarily of citizen farmers). It also helped that Hamilton was a self made man who rose above his station and was the only founder without a serious attachment to a particular state who thus was predisposed to see the forest as well as the trees. In many respects Hamilton could be adjudged to be the first "American," an immigrant whose misfortunes instilled in him self-reliance, who came from afar for a better life; who laid the foundation for others who followed him to have a fair shot at the success that he himself achieved . And this program does a respectable job in conveying the above (while including some less than stellar behavior of Hamilton) in an interesting manner worth watching. (Consider Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton for a lot more depth, or if you're not looking to delve into that much detail consider Forrest McDonald's Alexander Hamilton: A Biography.) Cheers
Description of Alexander Hamilton
One of the most controversial men of his age Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness extreme candor and arrogance. His life and career were marked by a stunning rise to power scandal and tragedy. He had one of the most notorious love affairs of any public figure in American history and met his death in a startling act of political violence the famous duel with Aaron Burr. But his contributions as a statesman survive. As first Secretary of the Treasury during the tumultuous early years of the republic Hamilton led the transformation of the young country into a commercial and industrial powerhouse. He was the one founder who had a vision not of what America was but of what it could become. This two-hour AMERICAN EXPERIENCE tells the story of the underappreciated genius who laid the groundwork for the nation s modern economy including the banking system Wall Street and an opportunity society in which talent and hard work not birth determined success.System Requirements:Running Time: 120 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 841887052108 Manufacturer No: 705210Bestsellers in DVD
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