{"id":4345,"date":"2017-04-05T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2017-04-05T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:19:45","slug":"alexander-hamilton-by-ron-chernow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4345","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4363 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Alexander-Hamilton-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Alexander-Hamilton-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Alexander-Hamilton.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I listened to this as an audiobook, and it ultimately took me about 2 months to finish it, and I still can&#8217;t believe Lin-Manuel Miranda took this giant book on a tropical vacation to read! \u00a0That being said &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the most amazing books I&#8217;ve ever read.\u00a0 The life that Alexander Hamilton lived and the accomplishments he\u00a0was able to achieve in his relatively short life are absolutely mind boggling.\u00a0 His influence is still felt today in our financial world near and far. \u00a0A life truly cut too short.\u00a0\u00a0What a loss to our country, but we are to this day indebted to him and his ideas. \u00a0Listen or read this book &#8211; it will floor you!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1658234\" target=\"_blank\">Request a copy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to this as an audiobook, and it ultimately took me about 2 months to finish it, and I still can&#8217;t believe Lin-Manuel Miranda took this giant book on a tropical vacation to read! \u00a0That being said &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the most amazing books I&#8217;ve ever read.\u00a0 The life that Alexander Hamilton lived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}