A Very Hammy Holiday (The Hamilton Gift Guide)
Oh this is good. https://t.co/vSeSpcqzIY
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) December 30, 2015
Episode 38 – Hamilton
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2015
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
As you might have noticed, Kait, Renata, and their special guest, Bossy Dame Sophie, read Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow and have been listening to the Broadway cast recording of Hamilton the musical non-stop. We want you, too, to be in the room where it happens, so we recorded this special Best Bestseller bonus episode to discuss our love of Hamilton and do some readers advisory for both the biography and the musical. We also played some Founding Father FMK. We hope you’ll be satisfied with the scope of our minds at work on all counts! You don’t have to wait for it–if you’re able to take a break this holiday season, add some more items to your overflowing TBR list!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: @Lin-Manuel on Twitter
Lin-Manuel Miranda Discusses How Hip-Hop Influenced Him and Hamilton
All the Hip-Hop References in Hamilton: A Track-by-Track Guide
How Lin-Manuel Miranda Shapes History
Playlist: The Sounds That Shaped Hamilton
Sophie’s HamilFeels Spotify Playlist
Read Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Genius Annotations for Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda on Jay Z, The West Wing, and 18 More Things That Influenced Hamilton
Coming up next: Bests & Worsts of 2015 (Part 2, Adults and Graphic Novels)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special best bestsellers edition of the worst bestsellers, |
| 0:16.1 | where we read an 800-page biography of Alexander Hamilton and strongly recommend you do the same. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:23.5 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:24.8 | And in case you haven't noticed over the past few episodes, we've become completely obsessed |
| 0:29.7 | with the new musical Hamilton, written by Lynn Manuel Miranda, about the life of Alexander |
| 0:35.2 | Hamilton. |
| 0:36.3 | It's based on a biography by Ron Chernow, a 800-page, just historical biography about |
| 0:43.6 | Alexander Hamilton's life that Lynn picked up for beach reading and decided needed to be a hip-hop |
| 0:51.7 | musical. |
| 0:52.8 | As one does. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes. |
| 0:54.7 | We've been talking about this book a lot in our past episodes, and as we started our end-of-year |
| 1:00.5 | review, we thought that it might be a good idea to do a special episode all about Hamilton |
| 1:05.3 | instead of just spending three hours in the middle of our end of year review talking about Hamilton. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah, because we acknowledge that there are like two or three people in the world who aren't |
| 1:16.3 | obsessed with Hamilton yet. And so we're afraid that we're starting to annoy those people. |
| 1:21.0 | Although so far we have not actually heard any negative feedback about all our Hamilton talk. |
| 1:25.4 | But just in case, we thought we would try to quarantine some of it off here in this |
| 1:30.0 | little bonus episode. |
| 1:31.6 | I called it little. |
| 1:32.4 | It's probably going to be like seven hours long. |
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