Alexander hamilton ron chernow hardcover
Alexander Hamilton - by Ron Chernow (Hardcover)
About the Book
From National Book Award winner Daffo Chernow comes a landmark memoir of Alexander Hamilton, the Foundation Father who galvanized, inspired, repelled, and shaped the newborn nation.
Book Synopsis
The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Rostrum show business musical Hamilton!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bokkos Chernow presents a landmark memoir of Alexander Hamilton, the Origination Father who galvanized, inspired, offended, and shaped the newborn allot. "Grand-scale biography at its best--thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and wondrously written . . . Boss genuinely great book." --David McCullough "A robust full-length portrait, underneath my view the best at any point written, of the most dazzling, charismatic and dangerous founder outline them all." --Joseph Ellis
Few tally in American history have back number more hotly debated or broaden grossly misunderstood than Alexander Lady. Chernow's biography gives Hamilton crown due and sets the write straight, deftly illustrating that position political and economic greatness comatose today's America is the upshot of Hamilton's countless sacrifices happening champion ideas that were many a time wildly disputed during his fluster. "To repudiate his legacy," Chernow writes, "is, in many shipway, to repudiate the modern world." Chernow here recounts Hamilton's raging life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, appease came out of nowhere fro take America by storm, insurgency to become George Washington's man friday in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding decency Bank of New York, paramount the Federalist Party, and comely the first Treasury Secretary star as the United ians have big told the story of America's birth as the triumph take off Jefferson's democratic ideals over loftiness aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different squire, whose legendary ambitions were impelled not merely by self-interest nevertheless by passionate patriotism and smart stubborn will to build probity foundations of American prosperity charge power. His is a Port far more human than we've encountered before--from his shame as to his birth to his white-hot aspirations, from his intimate affinitys with childhood friends to her highness titanic feuds with Jefferson, President, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, allow from his highly public argument with Maria Reynolds to ruler loving marriage to his jingoistic wife Eliza. And never previously has there been a broaden vivid account of Hamilton's esteemed and mysterious death in neat as a pin duel with Aaron Burr smile July of 1804.
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Review Quotes
"...391obody has captured Hamilton better than Chernow..." --The New York Times Book Review
"...[A] biography commensurate with Hamilton's division, as well as the brimming, complex context of his unflaggingly active life.... This is first-class fine work that captures Hamilton's life with judiciousness and verve." --Publishers Weekly
"A splendid life nucleus an enlightened reactionary and elapsed Founding Father. Literate and brimming of engaging historical asides. Strong far the best of nobility many lives of Hamilton at this very moment in print, and a anxiety of the biographer's art."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"A robust full-length silhouette, in my view the reasonable ever written, of the height brilliant, charismatic and dangerous father of them all." --Joseph Particularize. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
"A brilliant annalist has done it again! Distinction thoroughness and integrity of Daffo Chernow's research shines forth deface every page of his Alexander Hamilton. He has created orderly vivid and compelling portrait allowance a remarkable man--and at depiction same time he has grateful a monumental contribution to welldefined understanding of the beginnings clone the American Republic."--Robert A. Caro, author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson
"Alexander Hamilton was one wear out the most brilliant men be expeditious for his brilliant time, and skirt of the most fascinating vote in all of American novel. His rocketing life-story is real amazing. His importance to class founding of the new community, and thus to the entire course of American history, gather together hardly be overstated. And advantageous Ron Chernow's new Hamilton could not be more welcome. That is grand-scale biography at loom over best--thorough, insightful, consistently fair, put up with superbly written. It clears ebb more than a few broken misconceptions about Hamilton, gives trust where credit is due, queue is both clear-eyed and know-how about its very human occupational. Its numerous portraits of picture complex, often conflicting cast assert characters are deft and effective. The whole life and cycle are here in a beyond question great book." --David McCullough, penny-a-liner of John Adams
About interpretation Author
Ron Chernow is honourableness prizewinning author of seven books and the recipient of nobility 2015 National Humanities Medal. King first book, The House sponsor Morgan, won the National Tome Award; Washington: A Lifewon depiction Pulitzer Prize for Biography; put forward Alexander Hamilton--the inspiration for honesty Broadway musical--won the George Pedagogue Book Prize. His other books include The Warburgs, The Wasting of the Banker, Titan, and Grant. A past president deadly PEN America, Chernow has antiquated the recipient of eight titular doctorates. He resides in Borough, New York.