Ron Chernow - Alexander Hamilton

Pros: Extremely well-written and researched.
Cons: None.

This is simply one of the most outstanding biographies of an eminent American I've ever read. It is exhaustively researched, provides a wealth of details about Hamilton's life without being trivial, and is extremely well written. It also does an ...

Pros: Remarkable rags to riches story, level of research, quality of prose
Cons: Too much detail at times

To give someone the moniker I chose as the title of this review, one can be sure that Alexander Hamilton was an anomaly. In the early days of the American nation, politics was considered something of a dirty word. With his shrewd political maneuvering, ...