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    Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

    1. The House of Morgan (1990)
    2. The Warburgs (1993)
    3. The Death of the Banker (1997)
    4. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998)
    5. Alexander Hamilton (2004)
    6. Washington: A Life (2010)
    7. Grant (2017)

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    Ron Chernow Books Overview

    The House of Morgan

    The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed bygd The vägg Street Journal as ‘brilliantly researched and written,’ the book tells the rik, panoramic story of fyra generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It fryst vatten the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fa

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    Ron Chernow

    American writer (born 1949)

    Ronald Chernow (;[1][2] born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist, and biographer. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction biographies.

    Chernow won the 2011Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2011 American History Book Prize for his 2010 book Washington: A Life. He is also the recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his 1990 book The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance.[3] His biographies of Alexander Hamilton (2004) and John D. Rockefeller (1998) were both nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards. His biography of Hamilton inspired the popular Hamilton musical, which Chernow worked on as a historical consultant. For another book, The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, he was awarded the 1993 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing. As a freelance journalist,

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    Alexander Hamilton (book)

    2004 biography

    Alexander Hamilton is a 2004 biography of American statesman Alexander Hamilton, written by biographer Ron Chernow. Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was an instrumental promoter of the U.S. Constitution, founder of the nation's financial system, and its first Secretary of the Treasury.

    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. In 2015, the book was adapted into the musical Hamilton by playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda. The stage production went on to win numerous accolades, including 11 Tony Awards.

    Background

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    Before working on Alexander Hamilton, Chernow had previously written multiple books in the topics of business and finance. In 1990, he published The House of Morgan, which covered the life of financier J.P. Morgan

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