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Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Category: History | Series: Great Lives
The riveting life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely 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. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated than Alexander ...Show more
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Category: Biography
A"New York Times"Bestseller, andthe 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. In the first full-length biogra ...Show more
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Category: Biography Memoir
The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph ...Show more
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives
Secondhand. Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate, largely 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. Few figures in American history are more controversial. In this masterful work, C ...Show more
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Category: History
Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate, largely 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. Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. In this maste ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
Category: History
The #1 New York Times bestseller. New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too o ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
Category: History
A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Pulitzer Prize-Winning AuthorWith lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Ron Chernow sheds new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic . . . and yet the greatest hero." This is America's greatest biographer bringing movingly to life one of our fine ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
Category: History | Series: Ulysses S Grant
A dramaticportrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winnerRon Chernow, author of the book on which the astonishing musical Hamiltonis based. As late as April 1861, when the American Civil Warbroke out, Ulysses S. Grant was a dismal failure ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
Category: Biography
A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Pulitzer Prize-Winning AuthorWith lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Ron Chernow sheds new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic . . . and yet the greatest hero." This is America's greatest biographer bringing movingly to life one of our fine ...Show more
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago, and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about American finance. It is a rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned, ones that would transform the ...Show more
The Warburgs by Ron Chernow
Category: Biography
A story of brilliant achievement, dazzling personalities and human frailty set against the dark background of European racism and paranoia. The Warburgs were bankers, patrons of the arts, scholars, socialites, philanthropists and politicians. This Jewish family from Westphalia became a German success s ...Show more
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow
Category: History
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish banking families of the twentieth century. Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and ...Show more