Ron Chernow is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of Alexander Hamilton and Grant. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why Ulysses S. Grant was an important figure in civil rights history, why Robert E. Lee’s extremism has been papered over, and what it was like to watch his Hamilton biography became a musical smash.
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