Alexander hamilton biography 2004
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In his major biography of Hamilton, Ron Chernow calls John Laurens “the most intimate friendship” of Hamilton’s life.[1] When Hamilton and Lauren’s first met in 1777, says Chernow, they “took an instant liking to each other and became inseparable.”[2]
Chernow adds:
As the war progressed, Hamilton wrote to Laurens with such unbridled affection that one Hamilton biography, James T. Flexner, has detected erotiskt mellan män overtones in their relationship. Because the style of eighteenth-century letters could be quite florid, even between men, one must tread gingerly in approaching this matter, especially since Laurens’s letters to Hamilton were warm but proper. It is worth noting here, however, how frequently people used the word feminine to describe Hamilton – the more surprising given his military bearing and virile exploits.[3]
Chernow continues:
When John C. Hamilton was preparing his father’s authorized biography, he omitted a loose sheet that has survived in his papers an•
Alexander Hamilton
June 10, 2016If they break this Union, they will break my heart.~Alexander HamiltonIf anybody had told me a year ago that I would be delving into an 800 page biography on arguably America's least known Founding Father, first Secretary of the Treasury and he of ten dollar bill fame, I would have said they were crazy. But like so many people who will read this book in the coming years, it all started with a mad love affair for the Broadway musical. It's literally all I've been able to think about (or listen to) since April. It's consumed my waking hours in the oddest, most unpredictable, joyous of ways. Having now read Chernow's impressive, meticulously researched book, I am no longer surprised how it was able to inspire Lin-Manuel Miranda to write his extraordinary, beautiful, emotional, smart, searing, perfect musical (and that's all I'm going to say about the musical), because I really want this review to focus on Chernow's accomplishment and his fasc