Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton traces how an orphaned Caribbean immigrant became a revolutionary soldier, constitutional architect, and builder of American finance and federal power. It asks how national capacity can protect liberty—and how ambition, secrecy, faction, slavery, and personal honor can undermine the statesman who creates it.
9 chapters
Titan
Titan follows John D. Rockefeller from a disciplined Baptist childhood to Standard Oil’s rise, the battles over monopoly, and his later work in organized philanthropy. It asks how faith, efficiency, secrecy, and concentrated power could coexist, and what his career reveals about business, public responsibility, and reform.
18 chapters