Alexander Hamilton hip-hop tribute

By James Fallows
Because Alexander Hamilton has always been my favorite Founding Father; because I am in the "actually writing" mode and otherwise away from the internet; because no one else on the Atlantic's team has yet called attention to this; and because it is a very diverting four-minute interlude, here is Lin-Manuel Miranda's tribute to Hamilton from the "White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word" this past May. In case you have missed it.
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For more, you can't go wrong with Ron Chernow's great 2004 biography. Now back to, ahem, work.

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