Award-winning Brooklyn Heights author Ron
Chernow (pictured) will read from his critically acclaimed new
book "Alexander Hamilton" on June 10 at Middle School
51, with a reception and book signing to follow at the Old Stone
House in Park Slope.
Chernow’s biography of the Founding Father is just the latest
in a series of ambitious works by the Brooklyn native, including
"The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the
Rise of Modern Finance" (Grove/Atlantic, which won the 1990
National Book Award for Nonfiction), "The Warburgs"
(Random House, 1993) and "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller,
Sr." (Random House, 1998).
"Alexander Hamilton" (Penguin Group, $35) traces the
colorful historical figure from his childhood as an illegitimate
orphan from the Caribbean to his death in a duel with Aaron Burr
in July 1804.
The Old Stone House of Brooklyn, the setting for the post-reading
reception, was a focal point of the Battle of Brooklyn, one of
the first battles in the American Revolution, and it should prove
to be a particularly atmospheric setting for this literary coup.
The reading begins at 7 pm. Admission is $10, $7 for members
of the Old Stone House. Middle School 51, also known as William
Alexander Middle School, is on Fifth Avenue at Fourth Street.
For reservations, call (718) 768-3195, ext. 2.
