Ĭhernow began the writing process in 1998 by going through more than 22,000 pages of Hamilton's papers and archival research around the world. This book would allow a foray into constitutional law and foreign policy while still including a large financial dimension. Therefore, Chernow called Hamilton his "exit strategy".
He later cited his change in focus, "as a way to broaden my scope, and to stay fresh" after being inundated with requests for further biographies about Gilded Age industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt. In 1999, Chernow shifted his emphasis away from business moguls to start a biography in a new topic, American politics.
Rockefeller which remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 16 weeks. In 1998, he wrote a biography about John D. Morgan and went on to win the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In 1990, he published The House of Morgan, which covered the life of financier J.P. The stage production went on to win numerous accolades, including 11 Tony Awards.īefore working on Alexander Hamilton, Chernow had previously written multiple books in the topics of business and finance. In 2015, the book was adapted into the musical Hamilton by playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The book, which was met with mostly positive acclaim, went on to win the inaugural George Washington Book Prize for early American history and was a nominee for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Constitution, founder of the nation's financial system, and its first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was an instrumental promoter of the U.S. Alexander Hamilton is a 2004 biography of American statesman Alexander Hamilton, written by historian and biographer Ron Chernow.
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