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.
1、内容详实、有根有据 2、褒贬皆有,非伟光正 春节放假基本看完,给予五星评价。不过书中看到3个错误,有人名换错地方,是编辑的问题。 主要针对米国的三杰进行了分析 华盛顿: 稳重——死板 沉默——内向 理性——冷酷 克制——矫情 有容人之量——利用他人 锲而不舍——固...
评分Kindle还是方便,通过标记,一边看书,一边就把这个清单整理出来了:音乐剧《汉密尔顿》与《汉密尔顿传》的章节对应。 PDF下载连接见此:https://douc.cc/1ZWdat ===================================== 2019年5月31日更新 看到此文一直被大家点赞收藏,心里很开心,但对于这张...
评分对于让汉密尔顿的政治生涯蒙尘,后来让共和党反复诟病的婚内出轨丑闻,一位书友非常扼腕:“当时的政治斗争已经那么激烈了,他为什么偏偏在那么众目睽睽的时候犯这种错误啊。” 另一位书友干脆下结论:“他就是个渣男!” 这个21岁就参加了美国独立革命成为华盛顿的左膀右臂,...
Ron Chernow的代表作,看传记很多了,这本真是无法超越,文字美得跟散文诗差不多,研究也相当全面深刻。这本书是近几年美国汉密尔顿重新热起来的主要原因之一,从今天的角度来看,汉密尔顿的建国眼界远远超过他同辈的其他国父,只可惜政治上太幼稚(特别是跟老谋深算的杰佛逊起来),下场太凄凉。
评分A16Z,开头就迷住了,叙述腔调很有盖茨比的感觉(个人奋斗)。就是也太长了,断断续续听了几个月,稀里糊涂过耳忘了很多。
评分老天爷,可算是看完了,跟书比音乐剧只能算是“你所不知道的国父汉密尔顿桃色事件二三事.mp3”。不知道每个传记作者都会犯这种描述传记正主的时候不小心把对手(指 Adams 和 Jefferson)写的就很,emmmmm
评分推荐。汉密尔顿的史诗一生,美国建国初期的狗血政治。 不会去看音乐剧《汉密尔顿》。
评分听得我耳朵都出茧了,但是每天起床最期待的就是在车上听这本书。
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