![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. It's an amazing biography' LIN-MANUEL MIRANDAĪlexander 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.įew figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. 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. Ron Chernows Alexander Hamilton chronicles the life of the first Secretary of the Treasury, the titular Alexander Hamilton.The biography begins with Hamiltons birth on a Caribbean island, argued. 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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