A great companion guide for the new Hamilton movie! Learn all about where Hamilton happened (the man and the musical)! A collection of facts, anecdotes and trivia related to the Broadway show Hamilton: An American Musical and the life of Alexander Hamilton, presented through the locations where it all happened. This guide explains how locations from Hamilton's life are connected to the songs and settings in the musical and provides historical information about each location. With suggested itineraries, maps and subway directions, this guide makes it fun and easy for all fans interested in learning about or seeing the room where it happened.
A great gift for any fan of the Broadway show Hamilton or its songs, or anyone interested in Alexander Hamilton or Revolutionary-era history, regardless of whether they ever intend to visit New York.
The focus of this book is New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. and other relevant locations, and for each location in the book, the reader is given which songs occurred at the site, an address, map and subway directions for getting to the site, opening hours (where relevant), a description of which historical figures from the show were ever at the site, and a brief history of the site (with a focus on historical information related to characters from the show). It also includes information on other Alexander Hamilton related locations in the city (that have no relation to the show).
For example, the book explains that the song Right Hand Man includes references to events that occurred at each of the Battery, Richmond Hill and Morris-Jumel Mansion, and it includes images of these locations (which may be historical images for sites that no longer exist), a map and subway directions for visiting these sites. In addition, it explains that not only did Richmond Hill serve as George Washington's temporary headquarters (and was the site where Washington first met Aaron Burr), but also that Richmond Hill was the residence of John Adams during his vice-presidency and later was the residence of Aaron Burr, before ultimately being razed and having a portion of the estate become a New York City historical district.
The book includes photographs and other images and is indexed (including an index by song title) to make the information easier to use and to make this book a useful reference guide for someone wanting to travel to the sites or wanting to learn more about the history around the events depicted in Hamilton - An American Musical.
Barreras, Bryan: - Bryan Barreras had no intention of becoming an author. He studied mechanical engineering (University of Houston, '89), received his MBA (UofH, '94) at night while working at a petrochemical plant just outside Houston and eventually found his way to New York and law school (NYU, '97). Bryan spent most of the past 19 years working as a lawyer, with the typical big-law start for 4 years (which included a couple of years abroad, in London and Frankfurt) followed by various in-house lawyer positions. He was lured away from law to a tech start-up in mid-2015, but that ended poorly (and quickly) and he found himself in a bad job market in late 2015. Luckily Hamilton came along. Bryan saw the show with his family in January 2016 and they all absolutely loved it, listening to the cast album literally every day for three months. Bryan read Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton shortly (but not too shortly, given the book's size) thereafter and then, since he had plenty of time, started visiting Hamilton-related sites around NYC and researching the history of each site. The idea for his first book was born. The technical writing skills that Bryan developed as an engineer and a lawyer, as well as his research, layout and editing experience at NYU (Bryan was an Executive Editor on the NYU Law Review), served him well in researching and compiling the info and presenting it in a book. And his ignorance let him get too far along to quit before realizing that there's more to writing a book than just writing a book. Bryan lives on the Upper West Side in Manhattan with his wife of 25+ years, their two kids and their Jack Russell terrier, and he serves on the board of the nearby Bloomingdale School of Music, which has been providing open access to music education for more than 50 years.
Scholet, Nicole: - Nicole Scholet is a historian and public speaker on the founding period of the US, with a focus on the lives of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Nicole serves as President of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society (AHA), a national nonprofit educational organization which provides extensive online resources, leads programs at historic locations, supports and presents historically accurate research about Hamilton's life and legacy, and serves as the official partner to the Hamilton Grange National Memorial. Nicole's research has been used by various authors, museums, and historical societies, and is also shared through public speaking engagements. Additional professional experience includes The Colonial Dames of America, the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, and Herzog and Co. For more about Nicole's research and talks: nicolescholet.com For more about the AHA Society: theAHAsociety.org.
