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    A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.

    In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust

    A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton

    Pulitzer Prize-winning autho

     
    National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
    From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Srthe Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 yea

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    Book Review: Alexander Hamilton

    Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton. (aff.) New York: Penguin Books, pages.

    This book could be “Exhibit A” for why I love biographies. Ron Chernow is an excellent historian and an engaging writer. He has written several of my favorite biographies, including books on J.P. Morgan (House of Morgan) and John Rockefeller (Titan). He writes an adequate number of pages, researches extensively, and includes plenty of brilliant turns of phrases. Finally, Chernow picked a character who is both historically significant and personally fascinating.

    Alexander Hamilton is considered one of the Founding Fathers of America, perhaps the only one of the famous founders who did not ultimately become president. I have read biographies on George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, and Hamilton regularly appears in those narratives, rarely in a positive light. Only George Washington seemed to genuinely admire his talents,

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    Alexander Hamilton

    The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length 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 scandalize the newborn amerika. According to historian namn Ellis, Alexander Hamilton fryst vatten "a kraftig full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all."

    Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today's amerika is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. "To repudiate his legacy," Chernow writes, "is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world." Chernow here recounts Ham