The book does more than tell the surprising story of how a Broadway musical became a national phenomenon: It demonstrates that America has always been renewed by the brash upstarts and brilliant outsiders, the men and women who don’t throw away their shot. Their account features photos by the renowned Frank Ockenfels and veteran Broadway photographer, Joan Marcus exclusive looks at notebooks and emails interviews with Questlove, Stephen Sondheim, leading political commentators, and more than 50 people involved with the production and multiple appearances by President Obama himself. In addition, Miranda has written more than 200 funny, revealing footnotes for his award-winning libretto, the full text of which is published here.

Miranda, along with Jeremy McCarter, a cultural critic and theater artist who was involved in the project from its earliest stages - “since before this was even a show,” according to Miranda - traces its development from an improbable performance at the White House to its landmark opening night on Broadway six years later. He has appeared on The Sopranos (1999) and Sex and the City (1998), House (2004), and The Electric Company (2006). Hamilton: The Revolution gives readers an unprecedented view of both revolutions, from the only two writers able to provide it. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country’s origins for a diverse new generation. A landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and. Performance theorist Diana Taylor’s inquiry into the consequences of the repertoire-vs.-archive dichotomy in historical studies as well as social psychological research on heroism serve as frameworks for explaining how the transmedial Hamilton narrative adapts a Founding Father’s biography into a call for social cohesion in what Miranda perceives as a nation of immigrants.Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. By doing so, Hamilton emphasizes metahistorical reflections concerning Alexander Hamilton’s legacy/ies, agency, and power in writing history/ies as well as the role of democratic participation in understanding American history and in relating this history to an encouraging sense of selfhood. Both the stage show and its companion volume rely on intermedial discourse that intersects autobiographical and biographical narratives. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the libretto and the music for Hamilton: An American Musical, created the lead role both in the Off-Broadway (Public Theater) and the Broadway productions (Richard Rodgers Theater), and co-authored the book Hamilton: The Revolution, which provides the lyrics of the musical as well as the history of its production.

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