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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
2004
Penguin Press
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Book Review
What Hamilton—and the Book It’s Based On—Missed About Eliza and Angelica Schuyler
How Amanda Vaill gave Eliza and Angelica Schuyler their due.
by
Elizabeth Stone
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Slate
on
October 21, 2025
Longread
Inventing Alexander Hamilton
The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.
by
William Hogeland
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Boston Review
on
November 1, 2007
Associated Excerpts
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The Many Lives of Eliza Schuyler
She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.
by
Jane Kamensky
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The Atlantic
on
October 10, 2025
Chernow Gonna Chernow
A Pulitzer Prize winner punches down.
by
Alexis Coe
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Study Marry Kill
on
January 30, 2021
Schuyler Mansion Works to Bring Clarity to Alexander Hamilton’s Role as Enslaver
Throughout his career, Hamilton acted as a middleman for his family and friends to purchase enslaved people.
by
Indiana Nash
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The Daily Gazette
on
October 24, 2020
A New Hamilton Book Looks to Reclaim His Vision for the Left
In “Radical Hamilton,” Christian Parenti argues that the left should use Alexander Hamilton’s mythologized status to drive home his full agenda.
by
Ryan Grim
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The Intercept
on
August 4, 2020
The Issue on the Table: Is 'Hamilton' Good for History?
In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.
by
Kate Keller
via
Smithsonian
on
May 30, 2018
The Hamilton Cult
Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?
by
Robert Sullivan
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Harper’s
on
October 1, 2016
