Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors from Yale College and Cambridge University with degrees in English Literature, he began a prolific career as a freelance journalist. Between 1973 and 1982, Chernow published over sixty articles in national publications, including numerous cover stories. In the mid-80s Chernow went to work at the Twentieth Century Fund, a prestigious New York think tank, where he served as director of financial policy studies and received what he described as “a crash course in economics and financial history.”
Chernow’s journalistic talents combined with his experience studying financial policy culminated in the writing of his extraordinary first book, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (1990). Winner of the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction, The House of Morgan traces the amazing history of four generations of the J.P. Morgan empire. The New York Times Book Review wrote, “As a portrait of finance, politics and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite simply, a tour de force.” Chernow continued his exploration of famous financial dynasties with his second book, The Warburgs (1994), the story of a remarkable Jewish family. The book traces Hamburg’s most influential banking family of the 18th century from their successful beginnings to when Hitler’s Third Reich forced them to give up their business, and ultimately to their regained prosperity in America on Wall Street.
Described by Time as “one of the great American biographies,” Chernow’s Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998) brilliantly reveals the complexities of America’s first billionaire. Rockefeller was known as a Robber Baron, whose Standard Oil Company monopolized an entire industry before it was broken up by the famous Supreme Court anti-trust decision in 1911. At the same time, Rockefeller was one of the century’s greatest philanthropists donating enormous sums to universities and medical institutions. Chernow is the Secretary of PEN American Center, the country’s most prominent writers’ organization, and is currently at work on a biography of Alexander Hamilton. He lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
In addition to writing biographies, Chernow is a book reviewer, essayist, and radio commentator. His book reviews and op-ed articles appear frequently in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He comments regularly on business and finance for National Public Radio and for many shows on CNBC, CNN, and the Fox News Channel. In addition, he served as the principal expert on the A&E biography of J.P. Morgan and will be featured as the key Rockefeller expert on an upcoming CNBC documentary.
From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
Ron Chernow, whom the New York Times called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," now brings to startling life the man who was arguably the most important figure in American history, who never attained the presidency, but who had a far more lasting impact than many who did.
An illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, Hamilton rose with stunning speed to become George Washington's aide-de-camp, a member of the Constitutional Convention, coauthor of The Federalist Papers , leader of the Federalist party, and the country's first Treasury secretary. With masterful storytelling skills, Chernow presents the whole sweep of Hamilton's turbulent life: his exotic, brutal upbringing; his brilliant military, legal, and financial exploits; his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Monroe; his illicit romances; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.
For the first time, Chernow captures the personal life of this handsome, witty, and perennially controversial genius and explores his poignant relations with his wife Eliza, their eight children, and numberless friends. This engrossing narrative will dispel forever the stereotype of the Founding Fathers as wooden figures and show that, for all their greatness, they were fiery, passionate, often flawed human beings.
Alexander Hamilton was one of the seminal figures in our history. His richly dramatic saga, rendered in Chernow's vivid prose, is nothing less than a riveting account of America's founding, from the Revolutionary War to the rise of the first federal government.
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每天聽本書聽的。 漢密爾頓的逆襲離不開私生子的身份和窮睏潦倒的童年經曆,因為這些痛苦使得漢密爾頓有瞭極強的齣人頭地的欲望。為瞭解決生計問題,證明自身實力,漢密爾頓不放棄任何努力拼搏的機會。當然,他是幸運的,他的纔能不但一次又一次地被發現,而且還得到瞭很多人的...
評分 評分——讀羅恩•切諾的《漢密爾頓傳》 2006年美國《大西洋月刊》評選瞭對美國影響最為深遠的100名美國人(前十名見文後),本書的傳主漢密爾頓名列第五,是前五名唯一未就任過總統一職的人物。盡管最高的行政職位隻是華盛頓政府的財政部長,漢密爾頓依然可以排名至第五,他的影...
評分他的人生目標是建立世界第一強國,他擅長給有權勢的長者留下深刻印象,他喜歡做讀書筆記和章節提要,他在重壓下更能進入理想的亢奮狀態,他精心為子女定製學習計劃,他似乎讓我想到瞭我國的一代金融製定者---硃鎔基。他,就是亞曆山大•漢密爾頓 我一直認為,關於偉人的事業...
評分圖書標籤: 傳記 AlexanderHamilton 曆史 RonChernow 英文原版 美國 Biography AmericanFoundingHistory
老天爺,可算是看完瞭,跟書比音樂劇隻能算是“你所不知道的國父漢密爾頓桃色事件二三事.mp3”。不知道每個傳記作者都會犯這種描述傳記正主的時候不小心把對手(指 Adams 和 Jefferson)寫的就很,emmmmm
評分能給6星嗎.
評分這本書是我看的原版書裏生詞最多的一本,花瞭兩個多月纔看完,成就感還是蠻爆棚的,有時間的話想看第二遍。
評分2017-12-02 stayed up late in the law school library and finished half of it. hope to finish the second half one day.
評分花瞭兩個月運用大部頭策略讀完 火腿可以說是奠定瞭美國信用製度 財稅係統 及聯邦職權結構基礎的能人 Founding Fathers的年代在我眼中處處閃耀著理想主義的光輝 漸趨分立的兩黨意識形態是有趣的曆史課 紐約城留下的印記也倍感親切 "More than anyone else, the omnipresent Hamilton galvanized, inspired, and scandalized the newborn nation, serving as the flash point for pent-up conflicts of class, geography, race, religion, and ideology." What a brilliant mind!
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