The musical celebrates the multicultural United States of today as much as the Anglo-dominated US of Hamilton’s time, with black and Hispanic actors playing the parts of the Founding Fathers. Since then, Chernow’s erudite biography has inspired a theatrical sensation, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical Hamilton, which started its Broadway run in 2015, and received 16 Tony nominations in 2016, scooping 11. In 2004 Ron Chernow, a journalist and biographer specialising in financial history, first published this book, a mammoth work of research that charted the course of Hamilton’s dazzling career and the dark controversies that accompanied it.
A lexander Hamilton, one of the late 18th-century Founding Fathers of the United States and its first treasury secretary, has enjoyed only limited name recognition in the UK.
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