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Ron Chernow

Profession : Author

Birth : March 3, 1949

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

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There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

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I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

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Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

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Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

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The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

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Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

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After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

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One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

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I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

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I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

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I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

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There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.

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Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.

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Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of society and then scales the top. And he gets to know people from every strata along the way.

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The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

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Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.

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Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical.

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