Founding Father: Treasury Alexander Hamilton

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A year ago, any mention of Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton would make me groan and recall a dry, boring sentence about The Federalist Papers in my AP United States History textbook. Now? I think of a charming, determined ladies’ man with a bit of a temper that can throw-down the best rap the eighteenth century has ever heard. Hamilton, a game-changing, hip-hop inspired musical, brings Ron Chernow’s biography of the titular Founding Father to the Broadway stage. Through a combination of killer rhymes and power ballads, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the show, presents history as a story to be shared with the living, rather than solely the facts of the dead. This masterpiece reminds its viewers to never disregard the emotions