![]() Ron Chernow talked about his biography, Washington: A Life, published in October 2010 by Penguin Press. In 1990, he won the National Book Award for his first book, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. Chernow is the author of five other books including biographies of Alexander Hamilton and John D. ![]() The book is dedicated to his wife, Valerie, who died in 2006. The book is billed as “the first large-scale, single volume, cradle-to-grave narrative of George Washington.” Ron Chernow spent six years writing this book which is just over 900 pages long. This is the second of two parts of the interview. Morgan reinvents itself, struggles horribly in the new cut-throat competition of the commodity of regulated banking. After JP Jr, the Morgan lineage cannot cut the mustard. ![]() ![]() The House of Morgan was an extreme meritocracy. Other issues included: the role Washington played in molding the office of the presidency his nominations to the Supreme Court and his attitude toward slavery. Chernows Morgan should have ended just after this climactic-colossal game of fiat cash. He talked about some of the relationships George Washington had, including Thomas Paine, Benedict Arnold, and John Hancock. T20:00:18-04:00 Ron Chernow talked about his biography, Washington: A Life, published in October 2010 by Penguin Press. ![]()
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