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Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
challenging
informative
slow-paced
CAWPILE score: 5.86
I’ve been meaning to read this one for years: I got it ever since I got into the musical back in 2016. I started reading it sometime around then but stopped around the 100-page mark because of how dense it was. Listening to it on audiobook this time around definitely made it a better experience. There is so much information; Ron Chernow knows how to dig for it, apparently. The writing itself was pretty dry, and with the biography being as long as it was, it was hard to keep track of absolutely everything.
I did like comparing it to what I remember of the musical, though — it was interesting to see what Lin Manuel Miranda decided to keep and what he did not include. There was a lot more to Hamilton’s life than I ever knew.
I think one of the biggest takeaways I have from this book was how late in life Eliza made it: she died at the age of 97, and was one of the only living people of the American revolution during that time.
I’ve been meaning to read this one for years: I got it ever since I got into the musical back in 2016. I started reading it sometime around then but stopped around the 100-page mark because of how dense it was. Listening to it on audiobook this time around definitely made it a better experience. There is so much information; Ron Chernow knows how to dig for it, apparently. The writing itself was pretty dry, and with the biography being as long as it was, it was hard to keep track of absolutely everything.
I did like comparing it to what I remember of the musical, though — it was interesting to see what Lin Manuel Miranda decided to keep and what he did not include. There was a lot more to Hamilton’s life than I ever knew.
I think one of the biggest takeaways I have from this book was how late in life Eliza made it: she died at the age of 97, and was one of the only living people of the American revolution during that time.