{"date":"January 11","id":"01-11","intro":["Hamilton organized the Treasury Department. He penned most of the Federalist papers, which were greatly influential in bringing New York into the Union—the first step toward its eminent position in national and world finance."],"minutes":17,"readings":[{"author":"Alexander Hamilton","end":207,"start":199,"volume":43,"work":"The Federalist"}],"slug":"january-11","status":"proofread","title":"Hamilton—Father of Wall Street","url":"/harvard-classics/january-11/","words":3404}