Building on biographies by Richard Brookhiser and Willard Sterne Randall, Ron Chernow?s Alexander Hamilton provides what may be the most comprehensive modern examination of the often overlooked Founding Father. From the start, Chernow argues that Hamilton?s premature death at age 49 left his record to be reinterpreted and even re-written by his more long-lived enemies, among them: Thomas... (read more)