Ron Chernow
speaker
176 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Ron Chernow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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it was optioned for a feature film in Hollywood.
That is, Hollywood would buy the right temporarily to consider doing this.
And we had this happen three times.
So our expectation was that there would be a feature film of Alexander Hamilton.
And then one day in 2008, I found out that someone named Lin-Manuel Miranda, who was starring in his first musical on Broadway, which was called In the Heights, had read my Hamilton book and had become obsessed with it.
And I met him.
I went backstage.
He invited me to his Sunday matinee.
I went backstage.
And I said, so, Lin, I hear my book made an impression on you.
And he said, Ron, as I was reading your book on vacation,
hip hop songs started rising off the page.
This was not a typical reaction to one of my books.
And he's told me that he wanted to at that point, he thought it might be just a concept album rather than a full blown musical.
And he asked me to be the historical advisor.
And I laughed and I said, you mean you want me to tell you when something is wrong?
And he said, yes.
He said, I want the historians to take this seriously.
So I became the advisor to this still non-existent show.
The reason that I said yes to Lynn about being an advisor to the show was not because I thought it would be a sensation.
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