Financial Programs of Alexander Hamilton - Paperbackby Dianne L. Durante (Author) UNIQUE: looks at Hamilton's programs from the perspective of Hamilton's contemporaries, using primary sources. In late 1789, what would the man who cornered Secretary Hamilton in a tavern, or the woman who sat across from him at a dinner party, tell Hamilton he urgently needed to fix? How did Ham ilton's programs address those crises? And what made those programs so useful that the programs remained in place long after