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The architect of America becomes the biggest star on Broadway—

Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death
Ron Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.
Biography
 On the morning of July 11, 1804, at the foot of the bluffs in Weehawken, New Jersey, Alexander Hamilton was fatally wounded in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr. They fought over an insult.

Of the founders, Hamilton burned brightest and briefest, dead before he was 50 years old. By then he had been a war hero and aide to George Washington, authored most of the Federalist Papers and the nation’s first political sex scandal, founded the Coast Guard and the New York Post, devised and implemented a national banking system, imagined a U.S. Mint, eased America out of postwar bankruptcy and served as our first Secretary of the Treasury.

Hamilton feuded with powerful politicians of his time and suffers for it two centuries later. He opposed slavery. He imagined the United States as a manufacturing powerhouse and world financial leader, as a great nation of great cities with a strong, pro-business central government. Alexander Hamilton, immigrant, is the architect of America we stand in today and the biggest star on Broadway.

'Composer, lyricist and performer, Miranda wows audiences and upends U.S. history with his dazzlingly fresh hip-hop musical.' — Smithsonian

 Hamilton
'How 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, in squalor,
grow up to be a hero and a scholar?' — Hamiltonmusical Tour!

U.S. TOUR - Hamilton Official Site

Broadway's hit musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Inspired by the book "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow. Choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler. Directed by Thomas Kail.
Broadway's hit musical. Book, Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Inspired by the book "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow. Choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler. Directed by Thomas Kail.

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