Alexander Hamilton. by Chernow, Ron - 2004

New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First edition of this landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson. In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Alexander Hamilton is the basis for the hit Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical Hamilton.