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- chernow: In a way, as a subject for a book, Hamilton was the foun-der left standing. I don’t mean to suggest that all the other books written about him in previous years don’t have merit, because they do. But I felt that the large-scale, go-for-broke, authoritative text on Hamilton didn’t exist.
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Mar 22, 2016 · Using hip-hop to pack Hamilton’s story into quick, condensed lyrics that told a very rich, complex story, the composer had seriously impressed the author. Chernow recalled the whirlwind of emotions that have come with having a best-selling biography turn into a box-office-breaking Broadway musical. “The idea of middle-aged men sitting ...
Dec 30, 2015 · December 30, 2015 10:30 AM EST. Historian Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, which the New York Times called “by far the best biography ever written about the man,” was also the inspiration for...
Oct 24, 2016 · While working at Beekman and Cruger, Hamilton learned how to write in, as biographer Ron Chernow puts it, what was then considered a “beautiful, clear, flowing hand.”
Jul 1, 2020 · The show, which Miranda famously began writing after reading Ron Chernow’s biography, chronicles Hamilton’s ascension to the forefront of American history. The show is startlingly...
and still have” for the craft of writing history. Chernow’s most recent work is a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton. Five years in the making, the book chronicles Hamilton’s personal and political life, from his origins as an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, to his swift progression from King’s College
Jan 12, 2022 · By: Janice C. Simpson Before Miranda wrote the show, Chernow wrote the best-selling biography on the once-forgotten Founding Father. How involved was Chernow in the making of the musical? What does he think of Hamilton as hip-hop? And what would Hamilton, himself, think? The story has already become Broadway lore: Lin-Manuel…
Jan 31, 2019 · Chernow excerpts a letter from Hamilton when he was still living in the Caribbean, and in it Hamilton intones “I wish there was a war. Alex. Hamilton.” (In “Hurricane”, Miranda’s ...
