Is Hamilton a good book?
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Is Hamilton a good book?
According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.” Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton.
Is Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow biased?
Bias: 3/10 Ron Chernow is an extremely biased author, especially in this biography. Instead of representing Alexander Hamilton’s triumphs and flaws he instead illustrates everyone against him as terribly people.
What genre is Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow?
Biography
Alexander Hamilton/Genres
How long is Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow?
Alexander Hamilton (book)
| Author | Ron Chernow |
|---|---|
| Publication date | April 26, 2004 |
| Media type | Print, digital, audio |
| Pages | 818 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 978-1-59420-009-0 |
What book about Alexander Hamilton did Lin-Manuel Miranda read?
Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspired by Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography ‘Alexander Hamilton,’ which soon led to “The Hamilton Mixtape,” a viral White House video and ultimately what could be the “best musical of our generation.”
How many pages is Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow?
818hardcover
Alexander Hamilton/Page count
How many pages is Ron Chernow Hamilton?
832
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143034759 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 03/29/2005 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 832 |
Why did Lin-Manuel Miranda write Hamilton?
Miranda began working on “Hamilton” in 2009. He was inspired to write a hip-hop musical about founding father Alexander Hamilton after reading the 2004 biography “Alexander Hamilton” by historian Ron Chernow. “It was, he thought, a hip-hop story, an immigrant’s story.”
What book inspired the Hamilton musical?
Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton/Adapted from
The Tony-award winning musical was inspired by the 2004 biography ‘Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow and tells the story of one of America’s founding fathers.
author Ron Chernow
The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the 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.
What do you think of the book Hamilton by Tom Chernow?
Chernow is able to walk that narrow, tricky trail between scholarship and narrative storytelling without tripping over hagiography. He presents the largeness and improbableness of Alexander Hamilton without leaving out Hamilton’s excesses and flights of paranoia and inflexibility. I think Chernow gets
How many books has Ron Chernow written?
Ron Chernow is the prize-winning author of six books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton was the inspiration for the Broadway musical.
Who is Ron Chernow and why is he famous?
Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of six previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize.
What is the best biography of Hamilton?
The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the 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.