American - Author | March 3, 1949 -
Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.
Ron Chernow
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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 was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.'
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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 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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Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.
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