“The prolific Hamilton was now writing pseudonymous commentaries on his own pseudonymous essays.” — Ron Chernow Writing Copy Share Image
“It turned out that before he had stalked Garfield, Charles Guiteau had stalked Grant.” — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed by the words missing from the Trump campaign: Liberty, justice, freedom, and tolerance. — Ron Chernow Freedom Copy Share Image
“Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many.” — Ron Chernow Oppress Copy Share Image
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. — Ron Chernow Males Copy Share Image
In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.' — Ron Chernow Blessed Copy Share Image
Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical. — Ron Chernow Actor Copy Share Image
“Finally, he [John F. Mercer] ridiculed Hamilton as an upstart, "a mushroom excrescence," who did not deserve the prominence he had gained.” — Ron Chernow Insults Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are many more people who can identify with failure and hardship in life than with the success of an… — Ron Chernow Failure Copy Share Image
“Franklin wanted a unicameral legislature and an executive council in lieu of a president. He also opposed a presidential veto on legislation,… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“he warned that progressive accumulation of debt “is perhaps the NATURAL DISEASE of all Governments. And it is not easy to conceive… — Ron Chernow Nature Copy Share Image
Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering… — Ron Chernow Customer 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 Bull market Copy Share Image
That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse… — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass, who had entertained hopes for the Haitian post, graciously conceded defeat. “Your appointment,” he told Bassett, “is a grand achievement… — Ron Chernow Failure 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… — Ron Chernow Achievement Copy Share Image
“With a soil and climate scarcely equaled in the world,” he protested, Mexico “has more poor and starving subjects who are willing… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Clearly, the U.S. government condoned something that, in modern phraseology, could be termed industrial espionage. Building upon this precedent, Hamilton put the… — Ron Chernow Espionage Copy Share Image
“Grant’s postwar fame didn’t spare him the bane of his father-in-law’s glaring presence. After he and Julia settled into their Georgetown home,… — 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 General grant Copy Share Image
“FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR, Abraham Lincoln recognized the pivotal role of Kentucky, a centrally located buffer state between North and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Some Washington observers floated scenarios of a constitutional showdown in which Johnson would deploy Grant and the military to silence Congress. Suddenly… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses “might be preserved from all harm and restored to… — Ron Chernow Hope Copy Share Image
“Not simply wanting compensation for destroyed American vessels, he added a still more explosive demand: that Britain pay a staggering $2 billion… — Ron Chernow Merchant marine Copy Share Image
“And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be… — Ron Chernow Greed 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… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Willing to take heat on the issue, Grant showed courage and fairness in endorsing merciful treatment for Lee. “Although it would meet… — Ron Chernow Courage Copy Share Image
“With snow-white hair and a massive forehead, Bismarck, in military uniform, welcomed Grant with both hands extended. Turning on the charm, he… — Ron Chernow Military life Copy Share Image
“Like her youngest son, Julia administered stern lectures on republican virtue. Before supper, two noblewomen stopped by to school her in palace… — Ron Chernow Youngest son Copy Share Image
“A rump group of rebel soldiers formed a colony west of Vera Cruz called Carlota, which soon burgeoned into a community of… — Ron Chernow Confederate Copy Share Image
“Historians have been quick to pounce on the blind spots in Grant’s report. Less noticed is that he almost immediately recanted what… — 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
“Grant’s catatonic state didn’t last. Soon he was devoting four or five hours daily to his memoirs,” — Ron Chernow Memoirs Copy Share Image
When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about. — Ron Chernow Care Copy Share Image
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
“When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.” — Ron Chernow Avarice Copy Share Image
“Only a free press could check abuses of executive power, Hamilton asserted.” — Ron Chernow Executive power Copy Share Image
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. — Ron Chernow Customer Copy Share Image
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