Finally finished with this behemoth. It took me 3 months to read, and was the biggest, most dense non-fiction book I've ever read. But it was worth it. Extremely, EXTREMELY well researched and written. Not a single detail of Hamilton's life was left out. Be warned though, the author uses a TON of big and uncommon words. I had to keep my dictionary on hand throughout and ended up with a list of at least 100 words that were new to me...such as, and keep in mind these are used casually in the authors writing, : 
 Elucidate 
 Palimpsest 
 Apostasy 
 Proclivity 
 Schadenfreude 
 Autarky 
 Internecine 
 Pejorative 
 Malaprop 
 Excrescence 
 Contretemps 
 Brouhaha 
 Splenetic 
 Dyspeptic