The Hamilton Mixtape: "Cause I'm the damned genius that shot him"
One of the cool things about being President is that talented people of all sorts are happy to drop by and perform for you. Last May, the White House sponsored "Poetry, Music, and Spoken Word", an opportunity to let people most of us have never heard of get their 15 minutes.
In the Heights author Lin-Manuel Miranda performed a preview of his newest project: a hop hop album on the life of Alexander Hamilton, at least some of it told from the point of view of Aaron Burr, the guy who met Hamilton for a duel in Jersey and killed him.
I am not a huge fan of hip-hop. But after watching this, I'd be happy to learn. Check it out (hat tip to James Fallows for the pointer).
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