“What’s your name, man? Alexander Hamilton.” Whether you’re a history buff or a musical lover, it’s likely you know a thing or two about Alexander Hamilton—one of America’s most influential founding ...

The best historical fiction folds real events into a plausible narrative, with a soupçon of embellishment, without distorting the facts while making these events as relevant as today’s incidents.

Larry Mantle talks with National Book award-winning author Ron Chernow about his new book Alexander Hamilton (The Penguin Press). Chernow contends that Hamilton foresaw the nation’s current economic ...