Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Listened to this on a road trip to Tucson. Very enjoyable. Very interesting history of a brilliant man who came from a tragic Caribbean childhood and founded a nation and led it through its formation and had a plan for the nation but that plan was not followed but followed a more Jeffersonian path. He was a vital aide to Washington who in this book appears a little more neurotic than his typical description. Though the Broadway play is loosely based on this book it probably takes a very different view of Hamilton. Critics of the book quarrel with the authors presenting Hamilton as very abolitionist. The author is convincing but others say the facts are in dispute.