# Alexander Hamilton: How a Caribbean Orphan Built America

An episode of [The David McWilliams Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1462649946), 7 Jul 2026, 38 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/e/6a4bc229f29b714222897d89/media.mp3

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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