Ron Chernow

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

— Ron Chernow

I never dreamed that I would be autographing Playbills.

— Ron Chernow

“Many mickles make a muckle.”

— Ron Chernow

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

— Ron Chernow

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

— Ron Chernow

“The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays.”

— Ron Chernow

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

— Ron Chernow

I'm disturbed by the words missing from the Trump campaign: Liberty, justice, freedom, and tolerance.

— Ron Chernow

“It turned out that before he had stalked Garfield, Charles Guiteau had stalked Grant.”

— Ron Chernow

“Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many.”

— Ron Chernow

I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

— Ron Chernow

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

— Ron Chernow

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

— Ron Chernow

“Their strategy was to make clients feel accepted into a private club, as if a Morgan account were a membership card to…

— Ron Chernow

“Sheridan had a pugnacity that refused to quit, and Sherman described him as “a persevering terrier dog, honest, modest, plucky and smart…

— Ron Chernow

“it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is…

— Ron Chernow

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion…

— Ron Chernow

“Noah Webster contended that Hamilton’s “ambition, pride, and overbearing temper” had destined him “to be the evil genius of this country.”

— Ron Chernow

“Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of…

— Ron Chernow

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.…

— Ron Chernow

Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a…

— Ron Chernow

“He generally spoke with much animation and energy, and with considerable gesture. His mind was filled with all the learning and precedence…

— Ron Chernow

“He would smile at times, but I never heard him laugh aloud,” said Louisa Boggs. “He was a sad man . . . he seemed…

— Ron Chernow

“Few First Ladies—and the name wasn’t yet commonly used—have so reveled in the White House or developed such a proprietary feeling about…

— Ron Chernow

I find that when I come upon something that I think is a historical revelation, I have the sort of adrenaline rush…

— Ron Chernow

“The chief quartermaster on the West Coast, Robert Allen, an old friend of Grant’s, learned he was holed up in a cheap…

— Ron Chernow

“On September 3, an especially hostile audience baited Johnson in Cleveland, where his behavior flirted with new lows. When a heckler yelled…

— Ron Chernow

“In discussing this Romanian bloodletting with Simon Wolf, Grant declared that “respect for human rights” was the “first duty” of any head…

— Ron Chernow

In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included…

— Ron Chernow

“In Julia’s view, the Dent slaves were all “very happy. At least they were in mamma’s time, though the young ones became…

— Ron Chernow

“His military triumphs had been neither frequent nor epic in scale. He had lost more battles than he had won, had botched…

— Ron Chernow

“although he was not formally relieved until early November. Lincoln’s decision to cashier Frémont served as a cautionary tale for Grant, who…

— Ron Chernow

“Klan violence was unquestionably the worst outbreak of domestic terrorism in American history and Grant dealt with it aggressively, using all the…

— Ron Chernow

“On Easter Sunday, Nash led a mob of several hundred whites, armed with rifles and a small cannon, who opened fire on…

— Ron Chernow

“The underlying point of the letter was to notify Grant that, if Sherman’s brother John should be a candidate for president, “it…

— Ron Chernow

“Four Millions of people heretofore declared by the highest tribunal in the land, not citizens of the United States, nor eligible to…

— Ron Chernow

“it would have been better never to have made a sacrifice of blood and treasure to save the Union than to have…

— Ron Chernow

“Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)”

— Ron Chernow

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

— Ron Chernow

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow