About the Author

John P. Kaminski is the founder and director of The Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is director and co-editor of
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution of which twenty-seven volumes have been published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. A leading scholar on Constitutional history, Kaminski has also published another twenty-six volumes on a variety of topics in the American Founding Era and is the author of the America's Founders Series. "Alexander Hamilton" is the first in a series of Word Portraits of America's Founders that Kaminski is producing for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press