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For another book, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, he was awarded the 1993 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing. As a freelance journalist, Chernow has written over sixty articles for various national publications.
Sep 2, 2015 · (JTA) — Historian Ron Chernow has written successful biographies of the likes of J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and George Washington. So it’s fair to say that at this point in his career,...
Sep 4, 2015 · The Jewish Historian Who Made Sure ‘Hamilton’ Is Right for Broadway. By Curt Schleier September 4, 2015. (JTA) — Historian Ron Chernow has written successful biographies of the likes of J. P....
Oct 10, 2017 · Grant once issued an order expelling Jews from a Southern military district but Chernow thinks this may have had something to do with Oedipal rage against his father, who once went to Mississippi ...
Sep 21, 1993 · The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family. Ron Chernow. 4.08. 1,497 ratings139 reviews. Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry.
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Sep 21, 1993 · Chernow's saga traces the fortunes of the influential German-Jewish banking family from its generation of great wealth, stimulated by the Franco-Prussian War, through the family's defamation and degradation by the Nazis, and its subsequent return to Hamburg following World War II.
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Oct 17, 1993 · Chernow is particularly acute in his account of prosperous German Jews in the first third of the 20th Century. They were, for the most part, superpatriots who thought they had found the key to...
