Tonight on PBS the American Experience series turns its eye to Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the most influential of the founding fathers.
One of the experts featured in the program is Willard Sterne Randall, a Distinguished Scholar in History at Champlain College, whose biography Hamilton: A Life was published in 2003.
He spoke with VPR’s Mitch Wertlieb and said the PBS special that debuts tonight marks a painstaking effort that’s been in the works for quite some time: