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“A MONUMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC”

(HAMILTON, Alexander) CHERNOW, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin, 2004. Thick octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s acclaimed biography of Hamilton, signed and dated by Chernow on the title page in the year of publication, “Ron Chernow 10/9/04.”

With this definitive biography of Hamilton, Chernow had “made a monumental contribution to our understanding of the beginnings of the American republic” (Robert Caro). Fellow historian David McCullough concurs, praising Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton “grand-scale biography at its best…. Alexander Hamilton was one of the most brilliant men of his brilliant time, and one of the most fascinating figures in all of American history… His importance to the founding of the new nation, and thus the whole course of American history can hardly be overstated.” First edition, first printing: issued in half black cloth (this copy) and half red cloth; no priority established.

A fine signed copy.