If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“At the time, Charles Sumner still chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and made preposterous demands upon the English. Not only did… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Around this time, a young man named Samuel Slater slipped through the tight protective net thrown by British authorities around their textile… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“He would smile at times, but I never heard him laugh aloud,” said Louisa Boggs. “He was a sad man . . . he seemed… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“When Grant made Edward S. Salomon governor of the Washington Territory, it was the first time an American Jew had occupied a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Around this time he performed a ceremony that he had contemplated for some time. He asked Fred to compose a letter requesting… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“To survive, he continued to hawk firewood on the St. Louis streets and the time thus spent destroyed any chance of prospering… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Around this time, Mark Twain belonged to a small, irregular Confederate company and later claimed for comic effect that he had been… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always… — 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
