Summary and Analysis of Alexander Hamilton: Based on the Book by Ron Chernow
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Ron Chernow’s New York Times–bestselling biography of Alexander Hamilton sets the record straight on the often-misunderstood founding father. Beginning with a thoroughly researched investigation of Hamilton’s controversial origins, the book takes an immersive look at the man who authored the Federalist Papers, fought in the Revolutionary War, crafted the nation’s financial system, and served as George Washington’s right-hand man before being killed in an infamous duel with Aaron Burr.
More than a portrait of one man, Alexander Hamilton is the story of America’s birth—and the inspiration for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway musical.
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Contents
Context
Overview
Summary
Timeline
Cast of Characters
Direct Quotes and Analysis
Trivia
What’s That Word?
Critical Response
About Ron Chernow
For Your Information
Bibliography
Copyright
Context
Ron Chernow was already a widely respected historian and biographer, having explored the lives of important figures in politics and business, including George Washington, J. P. Morgan, the Warburgs, and John D. Rockefeller, so it is no surprise that Alexander Hamilton landed on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in May 2004, weeks after it was published.
George W. Bush was president, and less than three years had passed since the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Pennsylvania. Interest in Hamilton may have been spurred, in part, by a fresh controversy buzzing around his chief political rival, Thomas Jefferson, which began in the late 1990s. In 1997, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed was published. This work explored the longstanding rumor that Jefferson had fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings; a subsequent DNA analysis confirmed that he had. Among its many effects, this revelation provoked a reexamination of the founding fathers. Because Hamilton was in so many ways the antithesis of Jefferson—self-made, antislavery, pro-city—he was poised to attract new attention.
Though not an absolute dearth of biographies on Alexander Hamilton—there was Richard Brookhiser’s Alexander Hamilton, American (1999), Willard Sterne Randall’s Alexander Hamilton: A Life (2003), and some others—the time was right for Ron Chernow to turn his eye to Hamilton and tell this story.
In a 2013 interview with Biographers International Organization, Chernow spoke of hearing fans at a lecture shout out names of possible subjects for the book he’d write after Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr.: Alexander Hamilton was the perfect transitional figure for my next book, because there would be financial history galore while also opening up vast new subjects for study: military history, constitutional law, foreign policy, and dozens of other topics.
When Charlie Rose asked, in 2016, about the origins of this biography, Chernow said, Hamilton was the neglected and misunderstood founding father.
Having been impressed by the dramatic arc of Alexander Hamilton’s life—from his humble and tragic beginnings in St. Croix to his great achievements as a soldier, administrator, economic and foreign policy theorist, lawyer, writer, and entrepreneur—Chernow turned his focus to this