![]() ![]() ![]() In 2004, he published a biography of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, for which he won the inaugural $50,000 George Washington Book Prize. Morgan's family, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The book's author, Ron Chernow, is a former freelance business journalist who later fashioned himself as a "self-made historian". In 2011, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, as well as the New-York Historical Society's American History Book Prize. The book was released to wide acclaim from critics, several of whom called it the best biography of Washington ever written. Washington: A Life took six years to complete and makes extensive use of archival evidence. ![]() Ĭhernow, a former business journalist, was inspired to write the book while researching another biography on Washington's long-time aide Alexander Hamilton. The book is a "one-volume, cradle-to-grave narrative" that attempts to provide a fresh portrait of Washington as "real, credible, and charismatic in the same way he was perceived by his contemporaries". Washington: A Life is a biography of George Washington, the first president of the United States, written by American historian and biographer Ron Chernow and published in 2010. ![]()
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