Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America.Īccording to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.”įew figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton.
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If you like the podcast, you can subscribe to our feed, or find us at iTunes, on Stitcher, or Spotify. This is just the beginning of Ramsay's red onslaught which becomes almost laughably overdone (no grocery store stocks an entire wall of tomato soup cans). After we see curtains billowing inward to the sound of a lawn sprinkler outside, Ramsay cuts to Eva crowd surfing over revelers gleefully smashing tomatoes, a scene which resembles carnage in an overhead shot. If one is unfamiliar with the book or with Spain's La Tomatina Festival, the film's opening sequence could prove a bit disorienting. Still, a terrific performance from Tilda Swinton and the three beautifully cast actors tagged to play Kevin at various ages (the amazing Rock Duer, Jasper Newell and "City Island's Ezra Miller) combined with Kubrickian compositions and great sound design mostly overcome the film's faults. Reilly, "Cedar Rapids," "Terri") is presented a completely different face from his son, finding the fault instead with his wife in "We Need to Talk About Kevin." Cowriter (with Rory Kinnear)/director Lynne Ramsay ("Morvern Caller") has been drawn to macabre tales involving the young (she was originally attached to "The Lovely Bones" before it was mauled by Peter Jackson), but in adapting Lionel Shriver's novel, she leans a little too far into the self consciously arty and the horror aspects of the tale at the expense of the psychological. Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton," "I Am Love") loves her life as a globe trotting travel writer based out of New York City, but things change dramatically when she has her first child. |