Alexander Hamilton

Author(s): Ron Chernow

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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, 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. 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.
The book was adapted into a hugely successful Broadway musical - winner of 11 Tony awards - which opens at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London in November 2017.

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'This handsome new edition [is] an elegantly written, richly detailed account of Hamilton's tempestuous life' The Times. 'A magnificent biography' The Spectator. 'A mammoth work of research that charted the course of Hamilton's dazzling career and the dark controversies that accompanied it' Guardian. 'A brilliant recreation of the society and culture of the time: thoughtful and playful, moving and powerful' Michael Gove.

Ron Chernow is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Washington: A Life (2011). Alexander Hamilton and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr were both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Chernow lives in New York.

General Fields

  • : 9781786690036
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : 0.828
  • : August 2017
  • : 228mm X 145mm
  • : October 2017
  • : August 2022
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ron Chernow
  • : Paperback
  • : 1710
  • : en
  • : 973.4/092 B
  • : 2 x 8pp b&w illustrations