One of the things I had the most fun with [was], they treat her like an adult in a kind of sickeningly earnest way. Everything’s out in the open, and occasionally another character will say, ‘Is there anything you don’t tell that child?’
Alexander Hamilton is probably the foremost figure in American history who never became president, says the author of a major biography of the often-overlooked founding father. Biographer Ron Chernow pored over 22,000 pages of original papers to assemble his ambitious book.