When I started this project I was a third year graduate student struggling to sustain a passion for my research on Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists of the early republic. Little did I know that the musical of the century was about to catapult these exact fellows into ever-lasting Broadway fame – so I guessed I missed that boat – but the problem was one that even a hip and historically dubious musical couldn’t solve, and that was the irrelevance of my work to our contemporary political landscape. This irrelevance was not absolute of course, since for our relatively young Read more