Ron Chernow: Ulysses S. Grant

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, John D. Rockefeller, and Alexander Hamilton (the last of which inspired the Broadway musical), Ron Chernow comes to CHF to deliver a dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling presidents. In Grant, Chernow finds the threads that bind together the caricatures of Ulysses S. Grant–the inept businessman, the triumphant but brutal Union general, the hapless president–with his spirit and monumental accomplishments. With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow sheds new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero." Jeremy McCarter, author of Young Radicals and co-author of Hamilton: The Revolution, joins Chernow for this revealing conversation.

This program is generously underwritten by John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe.