Hamilton

An American Biography

De: Tony Williams

Narrado por: Peter Berkrot

The award-winning, smash Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist.

In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides listeners with a concise biography that traces the events and values that enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to Revolutionary War hero and Founding Father, a life uniquely shaped by America and who, in turn, contributed to the creation of the American regime of liberty and self-government.

He was one of key leaders in the American Revolution, a chief architect of America's constitutional order of self-government, and the key figure in Washington's administration creating the institutions that governed America. Williams expertly weaves together biography with historical events to place Hamilton as one of the most important founding fathers.

For listeners just discovering Hamilton for the first time or those with an insatiable appetite for books on the Founders and the American Founding, Hamilton: An American Biography will shed new light on this American icon now experiencing a remarkable second act.

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Thorough, but not so thorough to be boring

I really enjoyed the readability of this bio. Although thorough it wasn’t painfully detailed and scholarly, a bio for the commoner. Exciting till the very end. This book helps one understand a lot of underpinnings even in current politics.

Short sweet and to the point

No understanding of the founding fathers is complete without an understanding of the important role played by alexander hamilton

Engaging

The biography is well written and the narrator is good. I learned a lot about Hamilton and enjoyed the learning process.