![]() ![]() ![]() “Even though I wasn’t learning history, I was learning narrative-and narrative is at least as hard to learn as history.” Ever since, his books have combined skillful storytelling with a taste for great themes and detailed psychological portraits.Īctor-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda turned Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton into one of the most successful musicals in American history. Still, his English literature degrees from Yale and Cambridge University proved useful to his craft. He was surprised by the accomplishment as it was his first book and he had no formal training in either history or finance. Morgan financial empire – earned a National Book Award. ![]() Published in 1990, The House of Morgan – about four generations of the J.P. He thought it would be better to explain history through biography. Ron Chernow had spent more than a decade working in New York as a journalist and public policy wonk when he came up with the idea of writing about the rise of American finance. But he didn’t want to take the subject on as a “history of Wall Street,” which to him sounded tedious. Through his examination of America’s successful giants and titans, he also invites his readers to discover their failures and foibles, uncovering enduring lessons that inform our modern era. ![]()
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