and our author who is speaking is william hoagland, he has written multiple books on early u.s. history, including autumn of the black snake, declaration, the whisky rebellion, and founding finance. he is also the author of a recent publication -- a contributor, i should say, of a recent publication of historians on hamilton. he has also penned many essays and articles you can read in places like the atlantic monthly, salon, the new york times, boston review, huffington post, but none more important than our own magazine, financial history. you can find that magazine on our website. so it should be no surprise that the topic of william's next book is alexander hamilton. it's my pleasure to introduce him. william hoagland. [ applause ] >> thanks a lot. i know the acoustics in here boom a little bit. can anyone hear me? okay, thank you. that's good to know. i think some of you know that maybe it's a little bit -- i am a little bit of a fish out of water here. i would like to point out that the museum of american finance has had me speak, this is the third time. my first talk on al

hamilton scheme," enemies and allies in the creation of an american economy, author and scholar william hoagland discusses alexander hamilton's financial ideas. he is the author of several books about the founding period. the alexander hamilton awareness society and the museum of american finance co-hosted this event. it is about 50 minutes. >>> while the museum, the gallery of the museum is closed because of a flood that we sustained, our robust programming continues as evidenced by