Ron Chernow - Hamilton: From History to Drama
Join us for a unique conversation about the landmark musical sensation Hamilton, and the acclaimed biography that started it all. Jennifer J. Raab, president of Hunter College, will welcome Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, to a conversation with Harold Holzer, the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of Roosevelt House, about the transformation of Chernow’s 2004 biography of the founding father into the smash hit Broadway musical.
Chernow has written biographies of George Washington, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and of course, Alexander Hamilton, and is at work on a life of Ulysses S. Grant. He will go behind-the-scenes of the musical, and discuss his involvement, beginning in 2008 as a consultant to Lin-Manuel Miranda, explaining the ways in which the whole experience has been “a biographer’s wish-fulfillment fantasy.”
Presented by Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute on February 25, 2016 at Hunter College's Kaye Playhouse.
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Ron Chernow is charming. I loved the interview.
I just finished this marvelous biography today. What a fascinating story filled with brilliant, passionate, complex people and violent, turbulent, profound history. Thanks so much for telling the story of Alexander Hamilton, Mr. Chernow.
I sat down to watch 20 minutes of this before I went to bed. I watched the whole thing instead. So interesting!!
What a fascinating interview!
Fabulous and inspiring interview! Tbank you!!!
How does a. Orphan son of a and a scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean
46:35 Delayed gratification
What happened during that skip at 58:01?
@Roosevelt_House
7 жыл бұрын
The camera we use backs up to tape, and that was the point when the first tape reached capacity and we put a second one in the camera. That process also causes the camera to close one digital file and open a new one, thus the momentary drop.
Suspicious edit surrounding the sexuality discussion what did he say that needed to be cut
@Roosevelt_House
7 жыл бұрын
Nothing was edited out. The camera we use backs up to tape, and that was the point when the first tape reached capacity and we put a second one in the camera. That process also causes the camera to close one digital file and open a new one, thus the momentary drop.
ten dollar founded father without a father....
@trinisanerd3322
8 жыл бұрын
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
@talangarcia3860
8 жыл бұрын
+Maple Meeow Worked a lot harder
@maplemeeow4351
8 жыл бұрын
By getting a lot smarter by being a self starter by 14...
@trinisanerd3322
8 жыл бұрын
Maple Meeow they placed him in charge of a trading charter...
@maplemeeow4351
8 жыл бұрын
LAFAYEETTE (Your fine XD)
The best aspect of the casting is giving minorities an active part of the founding of the country and not the animosity fueled by black "leaders."
You said in your book slaves were drunk and lazy but who need a slave to do all that work. You could have kept it out of your book but you didn't because he had to take a shot for your own personal reasons!
You put in your book, slave were lazy and drunk. You have your nerves. They the ones that need slave to do their work! Put that in the book.
But... the Founding Fathers weren't multiracial...
@-cosmicrogue-
8 жыл бұрын
Neither did they burst into song and rap and dance. The musical isn't really concerned with an accurate likeness of the people, it focuses on their personalities, emotions, and motivations. If it were a biography on HBO, then of course Washington wouldn't be black and Hamilton wouldn't be latino, but in a musical (which already requires suspension of disbelief) it really doesn't matter. And Lin Manuel already said this musical is "the story of America then, told by America now".