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Ron Chernow

Nacido: March 3, 1949 – Brooklyn, New York, United States

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Ron Chernow is an American biographer and historian known for acclaimed works on American finance and political figures, including Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Ulysses S. Grant. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Washington: A Life and the National Book Award for The House of Morgan, with his Hamilton biography inspiring the Broadway musical.

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Ron Chernow was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949. He excelled academically, earning honors degrees in English literature from Yale College and Cambridge University’s Pembroke College. His early career was shaped by over a decade spent in New York as a freelance journalist and public policy analyst, where he developed a keen interest in the narratives underlying American finance and leadership.

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Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed
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Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation
-Alexander Hamilton
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The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained
-Alexander Hamilton
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In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton
-Alexander Hamilton
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Hamilton’s besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism
-Alexander Hamilton
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun
-Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr
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Washington presented a rare case of a revolutionary leader who, instead of being blinded by political fervor, recognized that fallible human beings couldn’t always live up to the high standards he set for them
-Washington: A Life
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don’t talk back, they don’t sue, and they don’t have angry relatives
-Ron Chernow Quotes
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Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market
-Ron Chernow Quotes

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"Ron Chernow won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his acclaimed book Washington: A Life"

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"Ron Chernow is one of only three living biographers to have won the Gold Medal for Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters"

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"Ron Chernow is a bestselling author whose works include Alexander Hamilton and Washington: A Life"

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"Ron Chernow is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose biography of Hamilton inspired the hit Broadway musical"

National Endowment for the Humanities

"Ron Chernow’s The House of Morgan was honored with the National Book Award for Nonfiction"

The New York Times Book Review

"Ron Chernow writes skillful storytelling with detailed psychological portraits, combining great themes with insight into character formation"

National Endowment for the Humanities

"Ron Chernow's Titan is called 'one of the great American biographies' by Time magazine"

Time

"Ron Chernow’s biography Grant offers a nuanced portrait of the 18th President, portraying him as a complex and often misunderstood figure"

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"Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan"

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