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The inspiration for the hit broadway musical hamilton. While hamilton is a brick of a book, it was an interesting, thorough look at the life of a founding father. The whole life and times are here in a genuinely great book. A life just how and why his subject attained such an exalted status. This is the new york times bestseller and it won the prizes like george washington book prize in 2005, national book critics circle award nominee for biography in 2004. Pulitzer prizewinning author ron chernow presents a landmark biography of alexander hamilton, the founding father who galvanized. Apr 26, 2004 alexander hamilton had a way with words, as does ron chernow. Chernow had plenty to work with as hamilton s early years were as rich with intrigue as his later political years. Ron chernow s new biography, grant, will be published by penguin press in october 2017. Ron chernow is the prizewinning, bestselling author of seven volumes and the recipient of the 2015 national humanities medal. A new york times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit broadway musical hamilton. A splendid life of an enlightened reactionary and forgotten founding father.
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The musical draws on ron chernows 2005 pulitzer prizewinning popular biography, alexander hamilton, to bring this lesserknown founder out of. A life is a 2010 biography of george washington, the first president of the united states, written by american historian and biographer ron chernow. This book represents largely on how the very human of alexander hamilton ron chernow wrote it with brilliance and humility. Washington a gripping portrait of the first president of the united states from the author of alexander hamilton, the new york times bestselling biography that inspired the musical. Ron chernow is the master architect when building biographies. Ron chernow was shocked that linmanuel miranda wanted to. His first, the house of morgan, won the national book award. Nov 24, 2017 ron chernow talked about his biography of former president grant, which focuses on his final years and the writing of his memoirs. A life won the pulitzer prize for biography, and alexander hamilton the inspiration for the broadway musicalwon the george washington book prize. Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the united states, was an instrumental promoter of the u. It remained on the new york times best seller list. In the first fulllength biography of alexander hamilton in decades, ron chernow tells the riveting story of a man who. The book is a onevolume, cradletograve narrative that attempts to provide a fresh portrait of washington as real, credible, and charismatic in the same way he was perceived by his contemporaries.
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In the first fulllength biography of alexander hamilton in decades, ron chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, an alternate cover edition can be found here. Pulitzer prizewinning author ron chernow presents a landmark biography of alexander hamilton, the founding father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other onevolume life, he carries the reader through washingtons troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the french and indian wars, his creation of mount vernon, his heroic exploits with the continental army, his presiding over the constitutional. Alexander hamilton by ron chernow, 2004, first edition. Ron chernow talked about his biography of former president grant, which focuses on his final years and the writing of his memoirs. Ron chernow is the prizewinning author of seven books and the recipient of the 2015 national humanities medal. Chernow, the author of acclaimed biographies of george washington and alexander hamilton the latter inspired linmanuel mirandas musical, is expert at explaining the friendships and. Chernow draws on the 60 volumes of washingtons letters and diaries as well. In this unique biography, ron chernow takes us on a pageturning journey through all the formative events of americas founding. Alexander hamilton by ron chernow was published on 26 th april 2004, english.
Oct 05, 2010 in this unique biography, ron chernow takes us on a pageturning journey through all the formative events of americas founding. His two most recent books, alexander hamilton and titan. In the first fulllength biography of alexander hamilton in decades, ron chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and. In 2004 ron chernow, a journalist and biographer specialising in financial history, first published this book. Many of the financial and tax systems that hamilton proposed and put in place as the nations first treasury secretary are with us today, if in evolved form. According to historian joseph ellis, alexander hamilton is a robust. I decided to read chernow because i thought it would help me understand hamilton and. With a dramatic sweep worthy of its giant subject, washington is a magisterial work from one of our most elegant storytellers. In 2004 ron chernow, a journalist and biographer specialising in financial history, first published this book, a mammoth work of research that charted the course of hamilton s dazzling career. Alexander hamilton had a way with words, as does ron chernow. Jun, 2016 ron chernow, alexander hamilton new york. An illegitimate orphan from the west indies, alexander hamilton rose to become george washington s most trusted adviser in war and. My thoughts on alexander hamilton by ron chernow, as well as some thought on hamilton the musical. Oct 10, 2004 the inspiration for the hit broadway musical hamilton.
Mar 29, 2005 alexander hamilton by ron chernow is a masterpiece which has engaged me, shocked me and even brought me to tears. He is the recipient of the national book award for nonfiction for the house. An illegitimate orphan of 18 when he emigrated from the caribbean to new york city on the eve of the revolution with a meager scholarship, he attended a classical academy in new jersey but was rejected from what would become princeton when he insisted on. We see the greatness of washington and the cowardice of jefferson. Pulitzer prizewinning author ron chernow presents a landmark biography of alexander hamilton, the. Alexander hamilton by ron chernow is a masterpiece which has engaged me, shocked me and even brought me to tears. Hamiltonthe inspiration for the broadway musicalwon the george washington book prize. The author of numerous lengthy biographies, most notably hamilton, has written a 1,074page book on ulysses s. In all probability, writes financial historianbiographer chernow titan, 1998, etc. Alexander hamilton by ron chernow overdrive rakuten. Celebrated biographer ron chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the united states. At least once every generation someone writes another major biography of george washington. In the first fulllength biography of alexander hamilton in decades, national book award winner ron chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scand. His first book, the house of morgan, won the national book award, washington.
Ron chernow, is the author of biographies of alexander hamilton, george washington and, most recently, ulysses s. Apr 25, 2004 so there is no hamilton monument in washington, but at least we now have ron chernow s moving and masterly alexander hamilton, which is by far the best biography ever written about the man. The paperback of the alexander hamilton by ron chernow at barnes. Chernow explained hamilton in his book by stating, if washington is the father of the country and. Rockefeller, were both nominated for the national book critics circle award in biography. I think this book was more academic than chernows book on washington. According to historian joseph ellis, alexander hamilton is a robust fulllength portrait, in my view the best ever.
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