Hamilton’s Curse by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

You can read the first chapter of this book here at Scribd. To give you an idea:

As the conservative columnist George F. Will has written, today “we honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton’s country.”

This is no cause for celebration. In fact, the triumph of Hamiltonianism has been mostly a curse on America. The political legacy of Alexander Hamilton reads like a catalog of the ills of modern government: an out-of-control, unaccountable, monopolistic beaurocracy in Washington, D.C.; the demise of the Constitution as a restraint on the federal government’s powers; the end of the idea that the citizens of the states should be the masters, rather than the servants, of the government;

And on and on. An eye-opening book which I simply cannot put down and which you absolutely must read if you have any interest in history, economics, politics, or the past, present, or future of the United States.