In John Steele Gordon's essay, "Alexander Hamilton: The Founding Wizard," Alexander Hamilton's financial strategies to strengthen the infant United States is explained in great detail. Hamilton believed that what the United States needed was order and stability. He was tasked with establishing a financial system for the new government and dealing with domestic and foreign fiscal issues. Hamilton was able to achieve his objective, as Gordon shows, by tackling it at the heart of its problem: by fine-tuning the American economy. By explaining Hamilton's 3-part plan in detail, he supports his thesis of showing how Hamilton established a sound economy which served as a foundation for American life.

Gordon explicates the idea that they needed to address the "financial chaos caused by the expenses of the American Revolution." The debt that had been created demonstrates the weak government and a need for the establishment of a strong national...