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Monday, May 14, 9-11 pm ET
Discover a man who was loathed and feared by two presidents, but
also is the underappreciated genius who was the architect of
America's modern economy.
One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton
was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of
stubbornness, extreme candor and arrogance. His life and career
were marked by a stunning rise to power, scandal and tragedy. He
had one of the most notorious love affairs of any public figure in
American history and met his death in a startling act of political
violence - the famous duel with Aaron Burr. But his contributions
as a statesman survive. As first Secretary of the Treasury during
the tumultuous early years of the republic, Hamilton led the
transformation of the young country into a commercial and
industrial powerhouse. He was the one founder who had a vision, not
of what America was, but of what it could become. This episode
tells the story of the underappreciated genius who laid the
groundwork for the nation's modern economy - including the banking
system, Wall Street and an "opportunity society" in which talent
and hard work, not birth, determined success.
