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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 a… (más)
Buena y detallada bio y relato de la epoca. Algo larga para los no americanos. Interesante los "que hubiera pasado si" que se te plantean cuando les algunos hechos pequeños que tuvieron al final gran impacto. se lee como una novela. ( )
In this favorable, hefty biography of Alexander Hamilton, Chernow (The Warburgs; The House of Morgan) makes the case for him as one of the most important Founding Fathers, arguing that America is heir to the Hamiltonian vision of the modern economic state. His sweeping narrative chronicles the complicated and often contradictory life of Hamilton, from his obscure birth on Nevis Island to his meteoric rise as confidant to Washington, coauthor of The Federalist Papers, and America's first Treasury secretary, to his bizarre death at the hands of Aaron Burr. A running theme is the contradictions exhibited during his life: a member of the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton nevertheless felt that the Constitution was seriously flawed and was fearful of rule by the people. A devoted father and husband, he had two known affairs. Lastly, he was philosophically and morally opposed to dueling, and yet that's how he met his end. Although quite sympathetic to Hamilton, Chernow attempts to present both sides of his many controversies, including Hamilton's momentous philosophical battles with Jefferson. Chernow relies heavily on primary sources and previously unused volumes of Hamilton's writings. A first-rate life and excellent addition to the ongoing debate about Hamilton's importance in the shaping of America.
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TO VALERIE, best of wives and best of women.
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In the early 1850s, few pedestrians strolling past the house on H Street in Washington, near the White House, realized that the ancient widow seated by the window, knitting and arranging, was the last surviving link to the glory days of the republic. (Prologue)
In order to make the text as fluent as possible and the founders less remote, I have taken the liberty of modernizing the spelling and punctuation of eighteenth-century prose, which can seem antiquated and jarring to modern eyes. (Author's Note)
Alexander Hamilton claimed Nevis in the British West Indies as his birthplace, although no surviving records substantiate this.
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She was buried where she had always longed to be: right beside her Hamilton in the Trinity Churchyard.
Biography & Autobiography.
History.
Politics.
Nonfiction.
HTML:
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 a
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