This is my first book review on BookLikes, and I'm happy that it is for Alexander Hamilton. This is a five star book. This is one of those books that you wish would never end, and when it does, you have to sit and absorb everything you just read. Ron Chernow writes his biography so that it reads a...
As I finished this book, the following image came to me: At the roots of every tree are bacteria and fungi, life forms we may think of as “icky” which are essential to the health of the tree. In and on our own bodies as well, innumerable tiny organisms thrive, and this population keeps us functionin...
Okay, not amazing. Really fascinating topics but author is enamored of his chosen narratives in a really blatant and sometimes distracting way. Also reads like a long, very rambling account- needed more editorial attention to pacing, etc.
Okay, not amazing. Really fascinating topics but author is enamored of his chosen narratives in a really blatant and sometimes distracting way. Also reads like a long, very rambling account- needed more editorial attention to pacing, etc.
Listened to the Audible audiobook. Part of the way that this book is framed is, obviously, around the various major figures in the history of the Morgan banks, and this very narrative first approach *really* worked well for me. However, I suspect it's also a framing that would work less well for me ...
Listened to the Audible audiobook. Part of the way that this book is framed is, obviously, around the various major figures in the history of the Morgan banks, and this very narrative first approach *really* worked well for me. However, I suspect it's also a framing that would work less well for me ...
On the good side, this book is a very complete biography of Hamilton and highlights his importance to the history of the United States. On the bad side, at time it descends into hagiography. I found it practically interesting that Aaron Burr was condemned for womanizing, but Hamilton’s extramarita...
The life of George Washington is not the stoic, myth-laden journey most people have fixed in their minds. As revealed in Ron Chernow’s excellent biography, the stoic man in paintings hid an emotional complex man who went from being a loyal British subject for the first two-thirds of his life to the...
Update: I just couldn't leave this review as it was, given Winona Ryder's amazing “Drunk History” portrayal of Benedict Arnold's wife, Peggy Shippen. This book was everything that I didn't know that I didn't know about George Washington (you know, like in that punnet square of things you know you...
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