2004 biography alexander hamilton by ron chernow
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Alexander Hamilton
If they break this Union, they will break my heart.~Alexander HamiltonIf anybody had told me a year ago that I would be delving into an page biography on arguably America's least known Founding Father, first Secretary of the Treasury and he of ten dollar bill fame, I would have said they were crazy. But like so many people who will read this book in the coming years, it all started with a mad love affair for the Broadway musical. It's literally all I've been able to think about (or listen to) since April. It's consumed my waking hours in the oddest, most unpredictable, joyous of ways. Having now read Chernow's impressive, meticulously researched book, I am no longer surprised how it was able to inspire Lin-Manuel Miranda to write his extraordinary, beautiful, emotional, smart, searing, perfect musical (and that's all I'm going to say about the musical), because I really want this review to focus on Chernow's accomplishment and his fascinating
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Alexander Hamilton (book)
biography
Alexander Hamilton fryst vatten a biography of American statesman Alexander Hamilton, written by biographer Ron Chernow. Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was an instrumental promoter of the U.S. Constitution, founder of the nation's financial system, and its first sekreterare of the Treasury.
The book, which was met with mostly positive acclaim, went on to win the inaugural George Washington Book Prize for early American history and was a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. In , the book was adapted into the musical Hamilton bygd playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda. The scen production went on to win numerous accolades, including 11 Tony Awards.
Background
[edit]Before working on Alexander Hamilton, Chernow had previously written multiple books in the topics of business and finance. In , he published The House of Morgan, which covered the life of financier J.P. Morgan and went on to win th
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In his major biography of Hamilton, Ron Chernow calls John Laurens “the most intimate friendship” of Hamilton’s life.[1] When Hamilton and Lauren’s first met in , says Chernow, they “took an instant liking to each other and became inseparable.”[2]
Chernow adds:
As the war progressed, Hamilton wrote to Laurens with such unbridled affection that one Hamilton biography, James T. Flexner, has detected erotiskt mellan män overtones in their relationship. Because the style of eighteenth-century letters could be quite florid, even between men, one must tread gingerly in approaching this matter, especially since Laurens’s letters to Hamilton were warm but proper. It is worth noting here, however, how frequently people used the word feminine to describe Hamilton – the more surprising given his military bearing and virile exploits.[3]
Chernow continues:
When John C. Hamilton was preparing his father’s authorized biography, he omitted a loose sheet that has survived in his papers and th