The Real Hamilton: An American Myth?
American History Hit
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4.3 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
11 Tonys, a Grammy, a Pulitzer Prize and broken box office records - there's no denying the impact of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.
Throughout this series on the real Hamilton, we have been trying to uncover the man the musical is based on. But how much of the show and its production is truthful? And how much does this matter?
Renee Romano joins Don to look into this new American Myth. Renee is a writer, historian and professor, and one of the editors of 'Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America's Past'. She can be found here.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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| 0:00.0 | As the lights dim and the curtains close on this Hamiltonian drama, the audience sits in the dark in a moment of awed and bewildered silence. |
| 0:12.0 | It has been an epic production. This Patriots' single lifetime, |
| 0:17.8 | one that for a while there seemed to be going so well until suddenly it wasn't. That ending sure took us by surprise. |
| 0:24.9 | Patchy tentative claps are heard as we urge our stiff knees back to life. |
| 0:30.4 | But then the smattering applause builds as Rose rise up and the whole theater suddenly bursts into |
| 0:37.0 | bravos and a long-standing ovation. |
| 0:41.3 | What else to do with this life of such supreme achievement? |
| 0:45.0 | But beneath the Cheers is a lingering doubt. |
| 0:48.0 | Un answered questions, conflicted emotions. |
| 0:51.0 | What was the message here? How do we judge this convoluted plot about this |
| 0:56.1 | complicated man, a founding father unfounded by so many trials and triumphs and |
| 1:02.2 | tragedies? Do we celebrate his brilliant by so many trials and triumphs and tragedies. |
| 1:03.6 | Do we celebrate his brilliant civic genius? |
| 1:06.6 | Hail the prowess of his fiscal programs. |
| 1:09.9 | Embrace his vision of a republic in which public finance is the glue that binds us together. |
| 1:17.0 | Is it? |
| 1:18.0 | Does it? |
| 1:19.0 | Really? The Hello again it's American History hit and I'm Don Wildman. We bring you today the final |
| 1:42.0 | installment of our four-part series on the real Alexander Hamilton. |
| 1:46.0 | Founding father, husband, soldier, lover, dueler, guiding force of our early republic. |
| 1:53.0 | Our framers are all partly mythologized, minted on money, |
| 1:57.0 | monumented in marble, but none before has inspired quite the Broadway Bruhaha |
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