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Theater Chapter 7 The musical is a biography of Alexander Hamilton, based on Ron Chernow's non-fiction biography. The musical retains most of the main events of Hamilton's life but dramatizes parts of it for theatrical purpose. Hamilton was an immigrant to New York from the Caribbean, a Revolutionary War veteran and George Washington's helper of camp who eventually grow into the first Treasury secretary. Through his writings like "The Federalist Papers," which he co-authored with James Madison and John Jay, he's in charge for a lot of American political concept, specifically the U.S. economic and banking organization. Because he was illegal and came from poverty, he's considered a representation of the "self-made man" in America. He was also self-destructive and self-defeating in numerous ways, talents that made Lin-Manuel Miranda see his story as more fascinating. Hamilton lived a very miserable life as a kid, he was born by French mother and Scottish dad. He escaped poverty by educating himself and writing a letter that earned him a scholarship to kings college, which is now Columbia university. Fast-forward to seventeen seventy-six, Hamilton graduates and he is trying to get his idol attention, Aaron Burr. Then john lurens, hecules mulligan and de marqui de lafayatte walk in, that's when they started talking about starting a revolution and George Washington needed someone in charge. Burr wanted to get picked but George Washington picked Hamilton. Hamilton becomes a lawyer, proposes a new form of government and starts to defend a new US constitution by writing 51 essays.