Ron Chernow

Dec 31, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |John Green |Ron Chernow |Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane

As we begin a new year and (try our best to) stick to our resolutions, we’re so excited to take a peek ahead at all the exceptional reading 2025 has to offer us. One of our favorite resolutions? Reading more nonfiction. The best kind of nonfiction teaches us about the world, its people, and our history. Through indelible memoirs, hard-boiled history, exciting biographies and so much more, this is our most anticipated nonfiction of 2025.

Oct 24, 2024 | nationalarchivesstore.org | Ron Chernow

A man whose life is typically misunderstood, works about Ulysses S. Grant often paint him as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant yet brutal Union general of the Civil War. As Ron Chernow demonstrates in his masterful biography, these stereotypes don’t come close to illustrating the eighteenth president. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing.

Mar 25, 2024 | thepodcastplayground.com | Ron Chernow |William L. Shirer

Bruce joins me today to discuss 25 years of marriage and answer listener questions like-  What did you learn in year 25 that you wish you knew in year 1? How do you make time for intimacy? How to handle times when your significant other is having a struggle with faith? And, What are you looking forward to when your kids are grown and flown? I discuss how I’ve grown in emotional maturity while Bruce talks about how to get out of the ruts and routines of work and family life.

Oct 4, 2023 | vnexplorer.net | Sylvia Nasar |Ron Chernow |Martin Gilbert |Hayden Herrera

1. A Beautiful Mind, 2. Alexander Hamilton, 3. Churchill: A Life, 4. Enrique's Journey, 5. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, 6. Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang, 7. The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes, 8. Napoleon: A Life, 9. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, 10. Prince: A Private View. Biographies transport readers back in time to a single, extraordinary life that is immortalized in captivating, dramatic, or emotional stories.

Jun 9, 2023 | trinitywallstreet.org | James Melchiorre |Ron Chernow

Even with eight children and a husband whose activities kept him occupied outside the home, Eliza contributed to Hamilton’s prolific writing, including George Washington’s farewell address. In 1793, she plunged into the work of relief for refugees of the French Revolution, including clothing and food. During a three-year period from 1801 to 1804, Eliza Hamilton’s sister, oldest son, husband, and father all died.