Ron Chernow

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/28/19
  

  Historian Ron Chernow Cracks Jokes at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

  In choosing a scholar over a satirist, the Correspondents’ Association had sought to solemnize a dinner known for its comedic puncturing of the Washington bubble. 

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  12-26-17
  

  Ron Chernow’s Biography of US Grant is caught up in the fight over Confederate statues

  by Albert R. Hunt

  In the Wall Street Journal Al Hunt says the book shows why Virginia should fret a statue to Grant.

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• 10-20-17
  

  Review of Ron Chernow’s "Grant"

  by John Reeves

  Chernow has now provided us with a compelling explanation of why Grant was indeed the first soldier of the Civil War, though there’s always the matter of the sacrifice of all those lives lost in battle.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  12-30-15
  

  Ron Chernow says Hamilton was one of the most modern founding fathers

  Hamilton’s vision for America won out over Jefferson’s.

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  9-14-15
  

  Ron Chernow was shocked that Lin-Manuel Miranda wanted to turn his biography of Hamilton into a play

  Chernow admits he was a little taken aback the first time he attended a rehearsal — the cast was made up almost exclusively of people of color. But he soon decided the casting was “a stroke of genius,” he said.