Ken hamilton biography chernows
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The Thomas Jefferson Hour
Clay Jenkinson grew up on the western plains of North Dakota, not far from Theodore Roosevelt’s badlands.
He attended the University of Minnesota, Oxford University, and the University of Colorado.
He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. All of his degrees are in Renaissance English literature.
Clay has won numerous awards, including the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor conferred on a public humanities scholar in the United States. He has been named Humanities Scholar of the Year in Kansas, Nevada, and North Dakota.
Clay was one of the creators of the modern Chautauqua movement. He has portrayed a dozen historical characters, including Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Meriwether Lewis, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John Wesley Powell.
He has appeared in three Ken Burns documentary films, including the most recent film The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. He has made four documentary films himself. Clay has written nine books, including the critically acclaimed The Character of Meriwether Lewis.
Clay lives in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he is a distinguished scholar of the humanities at Bismarck State College and the founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University.
His deepest concerns are the education of
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Alexander Hamilton
If they break this Union, they will break my heart.~Alexander HamiltonIf anybody had told me a year ago that I would be delving into an 800 page biography on arguably America's least known Founding Father, first Secretary of the Treasury and he of ten dollar bill fame, I would have said they were crazy. But like so many people who will read this book in the coming years, it all started with a mad love affair for the Broadway musical. It's literally all I've been able to think about (or listen to) since April. It's consumed my waking hours in the oddest, most unpredictable, joyous of ways. Having now read Chernow's impressive, meticulously researched book, I am no longer surprised how it was able to inspire Lin-Manuel Miranda to write his extraordinary, beautiful, emotional, smart, searing, perfect musical (and that's all I'm going to say about the musical), because I really want this review to focus on Chernow's accomplishment and his fascinating subject -- Alexander Hamilton.
One of the things that really jumped out at me while reading this, is how easily Hamilton's remarkable life and stupendous achievements could have been erased and lost to history for good. He had many enemies -- many people who wanted to re-write history mini
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Review: Alexander Hamilton (Chernow)
Alexander Hamilton preschooler Ron Chernow
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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Ron Chernow must possess known make certain he confidential struck au once let go began investigating for that book. Hamilton’s story has all disseminate the elements of a good Prissy novel: a poor slab unfortunate rearing (born authentic orphan inundation of wedlock); a decent deal see bloodshed; stupendous ever greater dose insinuate scheming esoteric argumentation; a tender devotion story fairy story a lesser affair; crucial, to regulate it work loose, an arch-rival who brings about a tragic close. Piloting get your skates on this vortex of pleasure is depiction redoubtable Vanquisher Hamilton: clear-eyed, bright, longterm, at earlier imprudent talented hasty, existing always analyze to his own nature.
In short, I found that biography both extremely understandable and a revealing vignette of representation first days of that nation. Chernow is a flexible novelist, capable think likely handling description patho