Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Only a free press could check abuses of executive power, Hamilton asserted.” — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I never imagined that Hamilton would be turned into a musical, much less a hip-hop musical. I think I can safely say… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The story of Alexander Hamilton lends itself to hip-hop treatment. Hamilton's personality is driven and unrelenting, and the music has that same… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Hamilton then picked up a slim volume on the table and turned it over in his hands. “Ah, this is the constitution,”… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“In other words, Julia still believed in the beneficial effects of tobacco long after her husband had likely died from it. Even grimacing with… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Right before his inauguration, he received a Quaker delegation and asked them to nominate Indian agents from their members. “If you can make Quakers… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Grant roomed with Fred Dent, who also singled out Grant as “the clearest headed young man I ever saw . . . He always wanted to do… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Hamilton has often been extolled as the exponent of a rational foreign policy based on cool calculations of national self-interest. But his April 14… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“While the folks at home embraced him as an improbable hero, Washington was denigrated in England as a reckless young warrior and in France… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“the immorality of slavery became patently clear that spring. He had acquired from Colonel Dent the mulatto slave named William Jones who had worked… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“As his life steadily unraveled, he pawned his gold watch and chain for $20 on December 23, 1857, to purchase Christmas presents for his… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Grant had overwhelmingly won the electoral vote, and had garnered the largest popular majority of the century, nearly 56 percent of the vote, the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The chief quartermaster on the West Coast, Robert Allen, an old friend of Grant’s, learned he was holed up in a cheap miner’s hotel… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Returning to his Manhattan town house on Christmas Eve, Grant, sixty-one, pivoted to hand the driver a holiday tip when he slipped on the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“When he bet Julia that she wouldn’t dare to descend into the mine, located seventeen hundred feet below, it roused her fighting spirit and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
