What Is Life Like For Alexander Hamilton

I think that Ron Chernow is trying to inform the reader of what life was like for Alexander Hamilton. Chernow provides the reader with information about Hamilton’s childhood, marriage, and political career. Chernow wrote that Hamilton grew up in a society where slavery was accepted and people had very poor morals. For example, Rachel Faucette, Hamilton’s mother, died two years after his father abandoned his family. Shortly after his mother’s death, Hamilton’s cousin, who was also his guardian, committed suicide and his aunt, uncle, and grandmother died. Hamilton had a very rough youth because he suffered many losses young but no matter what he went through, he rose above it all. A successful merchant took him in and eventually Hamilton became
a clerk for a New York mercantile firm.