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Alexander Hamilton
- Author
- Ron Chernow
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 7 December 2017
- Run Time
- 35 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Biography: general
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What to expect
You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father.
'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in Nevis in the Caribbean, to changing, helping shape our young nation. And it's uniquely an immigrant story and it's uniquely a story about writers... It's an amazing biography' LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.
Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. He charts his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Monroe and Burr; his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds; his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza; and the notorious duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death in July 1804.
Critics Review
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A mammoth work of research that charted the course of Hamilton's dazzling career and the dark controversies that accompanied it
Guardian
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A magnificent biography
Spectator
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An elegantly written, richly detailed account of Hamilton's tempestuous life
The Times
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Nobody has captured Hamilton better than Chernow
New York Times Book Review
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Chernow charts his way through Hamilton's hectic life, and the tumultuous times in which he lived, with aplomb
Military History Monthly
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That biography is incredible. It out-Dickenses Charles Dickens
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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A brilliant recreation of the society and culture of the time: thoughtful and playful, moving and powerful
Michael Gove
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Details
- Author
- Ron Chernow
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Duration
- 35 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 December 2017
- ISBN
- 9781788543644
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Biography: general
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, read by Scott Brick.You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in Nevis in the Caribbean, to changing, helping shape our young nation. And it's uniquely an immigrant story and it's uniquely a story about writers... It's an amazing biography' LIN-MANUEL MIRANDAAlexander Hamilton was an illegitimate self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. He charts his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Monroe and Burr; his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds; his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza; and the notorious duel with Aaron Burr that led to his death in July 1804.
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