ALEXANDER HAMILTON America’s Founding Father of Finance
His Original Reports on: PUBLIC FINANCE • A NATIONAL BANK • MANUFACTURES
Introduced and compiled by Mark G. Spencer
Read by Adam Sims and John Chancer
8 hours 23 minutes
Though best known for his primary authorship of the Federalist Papers, his death in a duel at the hands of the Vice President Aaron Burr on the banks of the Hudson River, and his star role in a 21st century musical, it is often overlooked that Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in creating the key financial building blocks of the young United States of America. Continue Reading →
Adam Sims trained at LAMDA. His recent recordings for radio include Wenny Has Wings, The World According to Humphrey and The Salamander Letter, all for the BBC. Film and theatre credits include: Band of Brothers (HBO), Lost in Space, The Madness of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Alice in Wonderland (RSC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park) and Snake in Fridge (Manchester Royal Exchange), for which he won the award for Best Actor at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. He has recorded many audiobooks, including Murakami’s Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, John Irving’s The World According to Garp, the classic noir thriller Nightmare Alley and A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind.
