The final two chapters focus on reaction to Hamilton’s death, the travails of his nemesis Aaron Burr and the life of his widow (who would outlive him by a half-century).Ĭhernow exhibits an extraordinary level of literary fluency and his narrative possesses a consistently erudite flair which is wonderfully colorful, surprisingly fluid and appropriately detailed and descriptive (while assiduously avoiding pointless minutiae). Meticulously researched and brilliantly composed, this biography contains 731 pages of text and covers Hamilton’s entire life: from his tantalizingly chaotic early years to his untimely death at the age of forty-nine. But not only does Chernow’s narrative of this intriguing Revolutionary-era figure surpass lofty expectations, it may well set the standard for the nearly perfect biography. It was a New York Times best-seller and served as the inspiration behind Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning musical “Hamilton.” Chernow is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “ Washington: A Life.” His most recent biography “ Grant” was published in 2017.įew books come with higher expectations than this biography of America’s most brash, self-assured and hyperkinetic Founding Father. Ron Chernow’s “ Alexander Hamilton” was published in 2004 and remains one of the most popular biographies of all time.
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