Ron Chernow
speaker
176 appearances
2 recordings
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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Okay.
See, this is what happens, Clark.
When you go out on the road, you discover that your readers remember the books better than you do.
You know, I think because my books are long, it's like the hard drive of my brain can only hold one book at a time, you know, and each new book kind of
drives out the others.
So sometimes I meet someone, they've just finished a book that I wrote 30 years ago that I've mostly forgotten and they have the book at their fingertips and then they can't quite believe that I'm the guy who wrote the book because I seem so dumb and forgetful.
Can you do the first number with me?
I does a bastard orphan son of a whore and a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by Providence impoverished and squalor grew up to be a hero and a scholar.
The $10 founding father without a father got a lot farther by working a lot harder by being a self-starter.
By 14...
They placed him in charge of a trading charter, and every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up.
Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of.
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, and barter.
Then a hurricane came and devastation rained.
A man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain.
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain.
And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain.
Okay, that's as far as I can remember.
That's amazing.
Hello, my name is Ron Chernow. And I feel very, very warmly about anyone who has won the Mark Twain Award for American Humor. Oh, wow. Including our friend Conan O'Brien. So it's a delight to be here.
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