The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit
Broadway musical 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 "A robust full-length
portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant,
charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." -Joseph Ellis Few
figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more
grossly misunderstood than Alexander 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. "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 presents an entirely different man, whose legendary
ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by
passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations
of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human
than we've encountered before-from his shame about his birth to his
fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood
friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams,
Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria
Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never
before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and
mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.
Chernow's biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the
story of America's birth seen through its most central figure. At a
critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will
remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage
as Americans. 9780143034759
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