Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

The #1 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.

Grand-scale biography at its best--thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written...A genuinely great book. --David McCullough

A robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all. - Joseph Ellis

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 America 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 Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America's birth as the triumph of Jefferson's democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we've encountered before--from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.

Chernow's biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America's birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.

The House of Morgan, which received the National Book Award, and The Warburgs, which won the George S. Kaufman Prize, are among Ron Chernow's best-selling books. The Death of the Banker; Titan: The Life of John D. Eccles The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Rockefeller; Washington: A Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and transformed into the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. Chernow has received seven honorary doctorates and served as president of the PEN American Center. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780143034759
ISBN 10	0143034758
Title	Alexander Hamilton
Author	Ron Chernow
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2005-03-29
Number of pages	832
Prizes	Winner of ALA Notable Book., Winner of George Washington Book Prize., Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year., Winner of Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year - Adult., Winner of Sons of the Revolution Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award., Winner of Yale Book Award., Short-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize., Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards.
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