![]() In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. ![]() Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. It's an amazing biography' LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. And it's uniquely an immigrant story and it's uniquely a story about writers. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in Nevis in the Caribbean, to changing, helping shape our young nation. ![]() You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. ![]()
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