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Ron Chernow. Ronald Chernow ( / ˈtʃɜːrnaʊ /; [1] [2] born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist, and biographer. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies. Chernow won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life.
- 1973–present
Mar 30, 2004 · Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan, and his second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993. His biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Titan, was a national bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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Aaron Burr, a fellow New York politician, is an ironic presence throughout much of Chernow’s book. Many readers will know that it was Burr who, when vice-president to Jefferson, killed Hamilton ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. “Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely great book.” —David McCullough
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Mar 29, 2005 · Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan, and his second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993. His biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Titan, was a national bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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May 5, 1998 · Ron Chernow, a National Book award-winning author, has written a well-researched biography of the richest man in history America ever had - John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) - ‘Titan’. In today’s (2016) dollars, he was worth $21 billion (in 1913 money, $900,000,000).
Apr 26, 2004 · It is worth reading the book not just to learn about Hamilton, but also to hear about the feuds and the divergent views that existed between the Federalists and the Republicans, between Washington and John Adams and Jefferson. Books I have read by Ron Chernow: *Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 5 stars *Alexander Hamilton 4 stars
