“To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.”Ĭhernow 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. 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.
According to historian Joseph Ellis, “Alexander Hamilton” is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic, and dangerous founder of them all.”įew figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. In the first full-length study of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow has written a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
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