Review of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
visionary, revolutionary, courtier, and protean bureaucrat
Chernow has come under attack for providing near-hagiographic bios of important Americans. If these kinds of vanilla jobs seem typical of some American biographers, I don’t think Chernow is guilty of this. His Alexander Hamilton goes deep into the details of what he accomplished in context, without the obscuring myth or wisdom in hindsight. Chernow is d…
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