How a B-side Founding Father became the hottest ticket on Broadway – and is changing the face of theater

Biographies on the lives of founding fathers have become popular among a certain echelon of parents and grandparents in recent years. Since David McCullough's work on the life of John Adams, the genre has proved to have staying power among the armchair, sweatered set. But what happens when one of these tomes falls into the hands of a Tony-award winning songwriter and playwright? If the playwright is Lin-Manuel Miranda and the book is Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton," you get a rap and hip-hop

Biographies on the lives of founding fathers have become popular among a certain echelon of parents and grandparents in recent years. Since David McCullough's work on the life of John Adams, the genre has proved to have staying power among the armchair, sweatered set. But what happens when one of these tomes falls into the hands of a Tony-award winning songwriter and playwright? If the playwright is Lin-Manuel Miranda and the book is Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton," you get a rap and hip-hop…