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The author Ron Chernow is an excellent author and researcher. His exhaustive research breathes life into his subject matter. Alexander Hamilton is vetted and exposed for all his brilliance and vanity. After reading this book, one realizes that Hamilton deserves to be placed with the top tier of the founding fathers of this country. He was as smart as Franklin, wrote as well as Jefferson, and argued a case better than John Adams. Chernow, as a biographer is in the class of Robert Caro and other great current biographers. I will buy every book that Chernow writes that is how good he is as a writer!
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I read this because I had a long standing white-hot hatred of Hamilton, so much so that it amused my friends. One of them suggested I read this book to get a different perspective, and it really did turn me around a bit. Hamilton is still a political fool, but he's a military and financial genius, and the USA would be much worse off without him.
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Just by reading the sample chapters on my Kindle, Ron Chernow has hit another home run. I couldn't put it down. This is a brilliant biography of Alexander Hamiltion, and how he has grown into prominence. The beauty of it, though, is how he got there. It wasn't an easy journey. I will definitely purchase this book because it is worth the read.
The reviewers--and critics alike-- are right, so go out and purchase this book. You won't regret it.
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This is a book that can only be described as magisterial. Epic in length, engrossing in its details, Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton has to be the authoritative account of the great man's life. At nearly 800 pages, it covers his unique upbringing and the insights it brought him into free trade and slavery, along with fascinating details (like how his Sephardic teacher taught him the Decalogue in Hebrew, a lifelong point of pride for the philo-Semite), and the whole trajectory of the country's original and most accomplished meritocrat. Chernow convincingly makes the case that Hamilton was America's prophet, the only one of his generation who saw the country not only for what it was, but what it would become: a free-trading republican democracy that would take the place of Britain in leading the world.
However, though the book records his energy, his bubbling ideas, and his titanic achievements, it is hardly hagiographic and lays out his colossal errors in judgment, from the Maria Reynolds affair to the misplaced sense of honor that hurt his political career and ultimately ended his life. Though his accomplishments were far more impressive than any founding father, save Washington, it is difficult to get the sense from Chernow that Hamilton would have made a good president without a powerful legislature or a Washington-like figure keeping his authoritarian impulses in check.
Almost always fair-minded, Chernow lays out Hamilton's place in history and portrays the founding generation in their full colors, from the highs of the Federalist Papers to the lows of the Genet affair. Finally, for those readers who already have their favorite founding father (or mother), be forewarned: any fair-minded book on Hamilton will by necessity increase his standing in American history and correspondingly diminish the standing of the other founders - Madison, Adams, and (especially) Jefferson. This book is no exception.
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This is a phenomenal contribution to the understanding of America's most influential founding father. Chernow brings the man to full dimension, in a well-researched and empathetic manner.
The backdrop of this tragic tale is also brought to textured life in the colorful and descriptive letters of the the subject's contemporaries.
Although Chernow is clearly an admirer of Hamilton, he does not shy away from criticizing him. The author often recounts certain events in a manner characteristic of a best friend who, although feeling great affection, understands but does not condone his failings.
I have read the book and listened to the audio CD's twice. And every time I get to the last chapter, I feel that I am about to lose a good friend.
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