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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...
Oct 24, 2016 · But as the musical Hamilton reminds us, he was also a fast writer—he wrote “like [he was] running out of time”—and his way with quill pens was almost as important as his way with words. A ...
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Jan 31, 2019 · Sometimes entire quotes are taken directly from Chernow’s text, which shows the beauty of the original. Chernow excerpts a letter from Hamilton when he was still living in the Caribbean, and in ...
Mar 9, 2019 · Overall, however, Ron Chernow’s “Alexander Hamilton” is outstanding in nearly every respect. It is one of the most captivating, fascinating, perceptive, well-researched and elegantly written biographies I’ve ever read. And if this is not the quintessential – and almost perfect – biography, then surely none exists. Overall rating: 5 ...
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?
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
Chernow ends this discussion by saying: “At the very least, we can say that Hamilton developed something like an adolescent crush on his friend.”[5] Chernow goes on to describe the close “trio” that Hamilton and Laurens formed with the marquis de Lafayette. NOTES. 1 Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (Penguin Press, 2004)., page 94.
