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Ron Chernow


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in Brooklyn, New York City, The United States
March 03, 1949

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Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors from Yale College and Cambridge University with degrees in English Literature, he began a prolific career as a freelance journalist. Between 1973 and 1982, Chernow published over sixty articles in national publications, including numerous cover stories. In the mid-80s Chernow went to work at the Twentieth Century Fund, a prestigious New York think tank, where he served as director of financial policy studies and received what he described as “a crash course in economics and financial history.”

Chernow’s journalistic talents combined with his experience studying financial policy culminated in the writing of his extraordinary first book, The House of Morgan: A
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“Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)”
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“Hamilton, the human word machine,”
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“The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained,”
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