Hamilton was a larger-than-life figure: to truly take his measure, one has to tell the whole story of his life.
Ron Chernow shows that both portraits contain more than a grain of truth. That was long overlooked by historians who tended to emphasize Jefferson’s contribution to the birth of the new republic and Hamilton’s stubborn and, as they saw it, self-interested ambition.
A heroic soldier who served on the frontlines in the revolutionary war, Washington’s most trusted aide, the author of the Federalist Papers and the founder of America’s first central bank, Hamilton’s brief life was a succession of towering achievements. He charts his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Monroe and Burr his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza and the notorious duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death in July 1804.Alexander Hamilton’s pivotal role in securing American independence from the British and establishing the United States is indisputable. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. It's an amazing biography' LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
And it's uniquely an immigrant story and it's uniquely a story about writers. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in Nevis in the Caribbean, to changing, helping shape our young nation. You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father.
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