The smash Broadway play “Hamilton” brought a resurgence of interest in the founding father who helped shape the direction of the young nation.
Fifteen years before the play a book by noted biographer Richard Brookhiser brought Alexander Hamilton to life.
Brookhiser’s 1999 book Alexander Hamilton: American provided fresh perspective and insight to the life of the man who was barely out of his teens on this day in 1776.
In his 30s Hamilton became America’s first Treasury Secretary. And in his 40s, he was famously shot dead in a duel with Aaron Burr.
But did you know he was also at the center of America’s first major political sex scandal?
So here now, from 1999 Richard Brookhiser.