Originally published in The Huffington Post:
Apparently people like Hamilton the musical. Apparently they like it a lot. I’m fairly certain that Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda could run for president, right now, without having won a single primary or super delegate, and easily win the White House.
As if it wasn’t already impossible to score tickets to the Broadway smash hit, something tells me that after the Tony Awards—Hamilton nabbed eleven Tonys, including Best Musical—the world will be even wilder for Hamilton, the Pulitzer-prize winning show chronicling the life of our nation’s first Treasury Secretary.
Are you, like so many others, humming the thrilling tunes #NONSTOP and rapping along to the historically-laden lyrics? Perhaps you’re hoping to some day get yours hands on a ticket—maybe even within the next decade?
For all you rabid HamilFANS out there who can’t score HamilTIX, fear not! Here are 10 books that you simply must read. Call it an immediate and literary way to get your #HamilFIX: