Book of the week: Hail to the #Hamiltome
 

Book of the week: Hail to the #Hamiltome
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Alexander Hamilton was many things, but self-effacing was **t one of them. He was a man who thought and wrote and dreamed a grandiose destiny for himself, starting from the moment he could hold a quill.*

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It is ** exaggeration when the musical*Hamilton shows the Founding Father as a young immigrant in New York in 1776, spelling out his name in the same breath as he talks of revolution. The kid really did wish for a war so he could take advantage of it; the man really did propose his own form of government in a six-hour speech at the Constitutional convention. Read more...


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