Alexander Hamilton: The Wrong Hero for Our Age

摘要

Alexander Hamilton may have been one of the few people who actually would not like the play Hamilton. He would not have objected to being the center of attention because he had an inflated ego—not quite as great as Donald Trump's, but what person's is? However, Hamilton would have been dismayed at the sight of himself singing, dancing, and intermingling on a stage with so many common, ordinary people. Even though he lived a rags-to-riches story, he wanted desperately to separate himself from his past and from the "rabble" (as elite Americans referenced the lower and middle classes at the time). Hamilton, the man, would have been made socially uncomfortable by singers and dancers of the common sort.