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Can you hear me ok . Thank you so much for being here today. We are really excited to have this book. Michael and i go back a few years now. I have been a big cheerleader of his for several years. It is exciting to have this conversation with you to learn more about this book. First, michael, why did you decide to write this book . I think that is the biggest question. Michael first, i want to thank the museum of American Finance for hosting this and organizing this. Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, is the most fascinating and remarkable founding father. Yet there is so much of his life that is uncertain, controversial. I started by just reading about hamilton, and i learned about all this controversy. What year was he born . What battle did he fight him . All the stuff we did not know. I basically read every book there is. I went to all the primary sources to determine wh ....
[applause] my name is justin desmangles. I am the chair of the before Columbus Foundation. About eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. There were some very big shoes to fill. Of course, i want to thank our friends at the San Francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. Also our friend at cspan who continue to support the Historical Mission of the before Columbus Foundation and american book awards. I will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. Over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area ....
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Mixtape, and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 584 yeah steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much. Oh, welcome. Enjoy the show. Welcome to the show. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the tonight show. This is it, baby. [ cheers and applause ] this is the show to be at. Welcome, everybody. Wow, what a great crowd. Guys, heres what everybodys talking about. I saw that al gore met with donald trump today to discuss Climate Change. [ light laughter ] they probably talked about how Climate Change could lead to massive floods in places like new york city. Trump was like, thats why i live on the 58th floor. [ laughter ] when it gets around 57, i bring the yacht around. [ applause ] the other big news is that trump app ....
Mixtape, and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 584 yeah steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much. Oh, welcome. Enjoy the show. Welcome to the show. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the tonight show. This is it, baby. [ cheers and applause ] this is the show to be at. This is the show tonight. Welcome, everybody. Wow, what a great crowd. Guys, heres what everybodys talking about. I saw that al gore met with donald trump today to discuss Climate Change. [ light laughter ] they probably talked about how Climate Change could lead to massive floods in places like new york city. Trump was like, thats why i live on the 58th floor. [ laughter ] when it gets around 57, i bring the yacht around. [ applause ] the other ....