... of the Founding era will understand how Alexander Hamilton, in exposing his infidelity and paying more than one-third of his yearly income in blackmail money, destroyed himself. By contrast, Aaron Burr tried to keep his indiscretions hidden, thus his chicanery is murkier. The musical shows how corruption...

...This chapter addresses how one of the brilliant aspects of Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: An American Musical is how well it captures both the depths of the animosity between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton and the sheer ferocity of Hamilton's personal and political attacks...