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- It’s no coincidence, Chernow said during a recent interview, that Alexander Hamilton’s legacy is so deeply linked to his prose. “He really gave us a wonderful model of a public servant who felt obligated to provide trenchant, comprehensive explanations of his policies.
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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 also...
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.
Jan 12, 2022 · 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?
Chernow disentangles Hamilton’s life from the enduring political legend concocted by his opponents, who demonised him as a “closet monarchist” and wannabe Caesar.
Jun 13, 2016 · Chernow deeply mined Hamilton’s writings, but barely scratched the surface of the prodigious scholarship on the founding era’s politics and culture, and it shows.
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 ...
Nov 1, 2004 · As a political thinker, his greatest achievement was The Federalist, the series of newspaper essays (1787-88) that he organized in defense of the proposed Constitution. Hamilton, who wrote the majority of them, recruited John Jay and James Madison to share the labor.
