Tuesday, July 25, 2017
6:30 p.m. — 8:00 p.m.

Read the book that inspired the award winning musical and join the discussion of Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow. This landmark biography recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life as an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who took America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, co-authoring the Federalist papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Chernow also tells the story of Hamilton’s wife, Eliza, a remarkable woman who lived to the age of 97. As a young wife, she endured with dignity the controversy over Hamilton’s affair with Maria Reynolds, the first political sex scandal in American history. The book also includes a vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.

Author Awards:

• • 1990 – National Book Award Nonfiction (The House of Morgan)
• • 1998 – National Book Critics Circle finalist, biography (Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller)
• • 2004 – George Washington Book Prize and National Book Critics Circle finalist, biography (Alexander Hamilton)
• • 2011 – Pulitzer Prize for Biography and American History Book Prize (Washington: A Life)
• • 2013 – BIO Award from Biographers International Organization for advancing the art and craft of biography
• • 2015 – National Humanities Medal

Presented by:
Katie O’Laughlin, Librarian, Reference & Research, LA Law Library

Registration fees: FREE
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