“To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “A robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." -Joseph Ellisįew figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. A genuinely great book." -David McCullough "Grand-scale biography at its best-thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written.
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. It out-Dickenses Charles Dickens' - Lin-Manuel Miranda.The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! 'Chernow charts his way through Hamilton's hectic life, and the tumultuous times in which he lived, with aplomb' * Military History Monthly * 'By far the best of the many lives of Hamilton now in print, and a model of the biographer's art' * Kirkus Reviews *
'Impressively thorough, superbly written and carefully researched' * Wall Street Journal * 'Gripping history, now turned into a hip-hop musical' - Michael Gove in The Times: Our favourite reads of 2016 and has gained fame for inspiring a musical' * The Spectator * a mammoth work of research that charted the course of Hamilton's dazzling career and the dark controversies that accompanied it' * Guardian *Ĭhernow's magnificent biography of Hamilton is out now. This acclaimed biography which inspired an award-winning musical, salvages the reputation of a Founding Father of the US. 'This handsome new edition an elegantly written, richly detailed account of Hamilton's tempestuous life' * The Times *
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