![]() ![]() “While other founding fathers were reared in their virtuous New England villages or cosseted on baronial Virginia estates, Hamilton grew up in a tropical hellhole of dissipated whites and fractious slaves, all framed by a backdrop of luxuriant natural beauty.” His family was part of the “middle rung” of society, “squeezed between the plantation aristocrats above and street rabble and unruly slaves below”. ![]() Hamilton was born in Charlestown on the island of Nevis (Leeward Islands) in 1755. Ron Chernow’s biography sets the record straight. Although Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States, he was demonized by his contemporaries as someone who was a wannabe monarch and hungry for power. ![]() These lines are from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical, Hamilton, which was inspired by this biography. “Let me tell you what I wish I’d known / When I was young and dreamed of glory / You have no control: / Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.” ![]()
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