Anne freeman talks about her lifelong research on hamilton hafment. Owe she talks about how she became interested in this founding father and how she used his writings to understand what motivated him. The museum of the American Revolution hosted this talk. It is about an hour. Forgive me. I have not only grown gray, but almost blind in the service of this museum. [laughter] well, it is incredibly exciting to welcome my friend of nearly 30 years now, joanne freeman, who i got to know running the streets of charlottesville when we were both graduate students. Apparent at the time. There were a lot of smart people, but joanne was already head and shoulders above her colleagues, just head a an incredibly sharp mind. Was already talking about this founding father guy, Alexander Hamilton. The rest of us were come on, that is sort of boring, but a lot of things about the work of joanne. R first book, public lish in 2001, does this sound familiar . A rousing discourse on the utopian republic.