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'Alexander Hamilton' by Ron Chernow is a biography that delves into the life of one of America's founding fathers....
Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of.
Ron Chernow
American writer (born 1949)
Ronald Chernow (;[1][2] born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist, and biographer. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies.
Chernow won the 2011Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life. He is also the recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his 1990 book The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance.[3] His biographies of Alexander Hamilton (2004) and John D.
Rockefeller (1998) were both nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards.
Born in the West Indies, Hamilton arrived in New York as an immigrant, an outsider.His biography of Hamilton inspired the popular Hamilton musical, which Chernow worked on as a historical consultant. 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,