![]() ![]() He was abandoned by his father at 10 and lost his mother at 12. He was born illegitimate, then an almost insurmountable social disgrace, in or around 1755 in the Caribbean. This tells you something about Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is short and intense and intellectually competitive (no Dan Brown for him) and it also tells you something about Alexander Hamilton, whose life was not the stuff of the average academic doorstopper.Īlexander Hamilton is crucial to the history of the United States of America, yet, despite appearing on the $US10 note, he is (or was, before his eponymous musical) often described as “the forgotten Founding Father”. ![]() For some light holiday reading, he took along a 700-page historical biography called Alexander Hamilton. In the American summer of 2008, seven years before the Broadway premiere of his musical juggernaut Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda went to Mexico. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]()
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