How Lin-Manuel Miranda used real history in writing Hamilton.
With its inventiveness and energy, its witty meld of past and present, its catchy and moving music, and its skillful word craft, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit Hamilton is near irresistible. In many ways, Miranda’s Hamilton is also true to life, propelled by the same driving ambitions, rough edges, and loose-cannon character as his historical counterpart. One could argue that Jefferson’s heartfelt faith in the democratic many makes him seem forward-looking and that Hamilton was very much a man of his time, modeling the United States on the great commercial empires of his day. Along similar lines, although Hamilton assumed that a market-driven economy would energize the young republic and take advantage of what he called the American people’s “unequalled spirit of enterprise,” he had no qualms about courting the rich and powerful in the hope of using their wealth and status as ballasts to stabilize the fragile American polity.
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