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person1949–

Ron Chernow

Disciplines:
biography
writing
american history/america
business history

Summary

American biographer — author of Titan, Alexander Hamilton, Washington, and Grant — Pulitzer Prize winner (2011 — Washington: A Life) — the most commercially successful serious American biographer.

Core Contribution

Creates the definitive American mega-biography — Chernow's combination of exhaustive archival research with popular narrative has produced the definitive biographies of Hamilton, Rockefeller, Washington, and Grant; Alexander Hamilton directly inspired the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, making Chernow's work uniquely productive of cultural offspring.

Notable Works & Achievements

The House of Morgan

The Warburgs

Titan

Alexander Hamilton

Washington: A Life

Grant

Historical Influences

Robert Caro Barbara Tuchman Primary sources

Intellectual Lineage

Brooklyn Yale Cambridge Wall Street Journal The House of Morgan Titan Alexander Hamilton Washington: A Life

Contemporaries & Peers

Robert Caro David McCullough Robert Remini

Minds Influenced

American biography Hamilton musical

Intellectual Posterity

Alexander Hamilton Titan Washington: A Life Grant Hamilton musical

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