Alexander Hamilton: How a Caribbean Orphan Built America

7 Jul 2026 · 38 min · S2026 E55

Episode Alexander Hamilton: How a Caribbean Orphan Built America

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250 years on, we ask the question: would America even exist without Alexander Hamilton? We tell the story of the French-speaking outsider who created the dollar, faced down the states, and set the world's biggest economy in motion, before being murdered in one of history's strangest duels.

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