Alexander Hamilton’s Truly Miraculous Rise from Orphan in Caribbean to Founding Father

I was awestruck while reading Ron Chernow’s remarkable biography of Alexander Hamilton, and what AH endured in his early life to become one of America’s founding fathers. It is both a tribute to Hamilton and to America that his rise was even possible. What is shocking is not that he died in a duel at age 49 but that he accomplished as much as he did in …