Alexander Hamilton. by Chernow, Ron - 2004

New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First edition of this landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Steve Tobey- Ron Chernow 5/7/05." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson. In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Alexander Hamilton is the basis for the hit Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical Hamilton.