aklanger_18 's review for:

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

4.0

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For a 700-page book about a founding father, this was super readable, so I give the author a lot of credit for that. Overall, if you want a way to dig into the intrigue around why Hamilton inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to write the musical Hamilton, I really recommend this. My only beef was that there was quite a bit of speculation about things we would have no way to know - “clearly Hamilton felt this way...,” which made it feel less academic. It’s hard to picture this being used in a college class.