Hip Hopping Hamilton

ALEXANDER HAMILTON has never been one of my favorite founders. I reckon its right wrong to participate in a duel, petty, vindictive, childish, deadly, ostentatious. there is always a better way, and he and Aaron Burr, through a complex extended serious of negotiations, could have found the better way, but refused. Pride prevailed. Had Hamilton won, burr would now be celebrated hip hoppingly. Instead, he was an outcast in his time, and by history. Hamilton's cogently reasoned Federalist papers, and visionary design of the new nation's economy, combined with his martyrdom, enshrine him on the ten, and now, on Broadway. It is impossible to imagine our modern economy without a strong centralized banking system, a national currency, and a treasury department, all Hamiltonian ideals. I'm a bit off put by the way Hamilton sucked up to George Washington, the king of cold pomposity. Following the General around like a little dog moved Hamilton right up the ladder, a man who knew on which side his bread was buttered. Even though he was the father of numerous children and an adulterer, his wife, for forty three years after his death, opined that she wanted to go and be with her Hamilton. Charismatic cuss, obviously. When I became aware of the hip hop musical, I cringed. Hamilton was a contemporary of Mozart. Wouldn't string quartets be more apropos? But I am told it works, anachronisms and all. My question is:why? Is it the history, the hip hop, or some mysterious synthesis compelling the rampant word of mouth recommendation, like a virus? usually it takes an act of God or congress to get anyone in the United States under teh age of forty interested in American history anything other then the Kennedy assassination, or the wars World War Two and Civil. Whether Alexander Hamilton would forever remain but a pretty face on the ten dollar bill without a helping hip hopping libretto and musical score is a question which can now never be answsered, and one which frustrates the historical heart and soul, but, as we like to say, whatever works.