![]() ![]() My aim has always been to straddle both the lay and specialized audiences. ![]() Many critics have pointed out that your works can be read by scholars as well as generalists. 30, shared his thoughts on the art of history, the presidency, and Grant, the man. Reached by phone recently, Chernow, who speaks at Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures on Mon., Oct. It tells the story of our often-misunderstood 18 th president, who endured poverty, was a brilliant general during the Civil War, helped establish the Justice Department, worked to crush the Ku Klux Klan, and presided over the 15 th Amendment, which gave blacks the right to vote. His new biography, Grant, is a 1,000-page tome that reads more like Tolstoy than a scholarly work. The Pulitzer-winning biographer’s best-known work might be Alexander Hamilton, inspiration for the hit musical Hamilton. He’s erudite, gracious and eloquent, but never lets you feel like he knows a lot more than you do, even though he does. ![]() Talking to Ron Chernow is like talking to your favorite professor from college. ![]()
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