I look forward to seeing it on stage again.
I did get to see the musical, Hamilton, in London in 2019. It’s a lot to wade through and I can see how a reader could get bogged down, but I love history, so this wasn’t an issue for me. It’s not often I give a 5-star rating, but I feel like this book definitely deserves one.
I learned so much - and not just about Hamilton, but of other leaders and the history of the time spanning his life. It was refreshing that he considered the whole man and not just his place as a founding father, but his role as a husband and father. I also liked that Chernow presented the evidence, and cast various cause/effect scenarios before the reader, and then shared his “most likely” interpretation of the facts based on historical documents and the whole picture of the man. I loved how Chernow wove quotes from surviving documents into the narrative so that the whole book was filled with primary sources which created a sense of hearing Hamilton himself, but at the same time, it wasn’t heavy-handed and difficult to understand because it was simply a part of the narrative. The book, while long, was full of fascinating details about Hamilton’s life, his background, and his all-important (to him, apparently) legacy. I picked it up because a friend introduced me to Hamilton, the musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, which I loved, and it piqued my interest in learning more about Hamilton - who I was vaguely aware of as the guy who was killed in a duel, and whose image is on the ten-dollar bill.
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