Ron Chernow
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Ronald Chernow (born 1949) is an American biographical author who wrote Alexander Hamilton, The House of Morgan, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., among other books.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York Chernow graduated with honors from Yale University and Cambridge University with degrees in English literature. He then began a career as a freelance journalist. From 1973 to 1982, he published more than 60 articles in national publications.[1]
In the mid-1980s, he began work at the Twentieth Century Fund, a think tank based in New York City, where he was director of financial policy studies.[1]
His first book, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance was published in 1990 and won the 1990 National Book Award for nonfiction. The book traces the history of four generations of the J.P. Morgan financial empire. According to a review in the New York Times Book Review "As a portrait of finance, politics and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite simply, a tour de force."[1]
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