I'm wrapping up the bio, read, and I gotta say... Chernow's not my favorite biographer (comparing mostly to Ray Monk's bio of Wittgenstein here). On the one han

I'm wrapping up the bio, read, and I gotta say... Chernow's not my favorite biographer (comparing mostly to Ray Monk's bio of Wittgenstein here). On the one hand, the amount of raw material that surfaces is amazing, and I am delighted to have read tons of the Hamilton's own writing and that of his contemporaries. However, if anything the musical tones down the hero worship from his book, into something more palatable. When he calls Eliza going to the cottage "abandoning" him, and talks about his cheating in terms of him "being too much for her", or his rhapsodizing about him being right about the worthlessness of the French revolution vs. the American one, it starts wearing on you. edit: Still totally worth a read.