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Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of Alexander Hamilton in the first full-length biography in decades as a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Chernow presents an entirely different man than the commonly perceived aristocrat, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. This Hamilton is far more human than we've encountered before-from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. Never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.
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