Hamilton: The Revolution

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, 287 pages

In this book, Hamilton creators Miranda and McCarter reflect on the years of work, inspiration, and collaboration that went into making the groundbreaking Broadway musical. While plenty of people, myself included, would use the word "genius" to describe Miranda, he refreshingly and enthusiastically sings the praises of the actors, musicians, costume designers, set designers, choreographers, and lighting designers that made the musical possible, and I positively loved learning about the care he took to work with author Ron Chernow (whose Hamilton biography inspired the hip-hop musical) to make the musical as historically accurate as possible. History nerds FTW! This was a fun book, one that I listened to most of the way through before grabbing the physical copy to see Miranda's annotated libretto (those notes don't make a lot of sense without the visual). It makes me want to both listen to the cast album on repeat and see the show again.