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@SexyLilSeaOtter Says:
2:00 you dont do a good job pointing out that alexanders mother was forced to mary a man named lavain. She ran away from him met alexanders father, had him and his brother then his biological father ran away. Because his mother didnt secure a divorce she was imprisoned for adultery, eventually caught yellow fever and died. You just kind of say "his dad left him" then a few seconds later mention "her jealous husband came back and took her estate"
Your editor kinda dropped the ball. Also thats why he was considered illegitimate.
@Goodnewsglobal Says:
Great video but far too many adds man. Every two mins is just greedy.
@garitboothe3413 Says:
🤔"Newspapers of the period didn't do objective reporting. Instead they were filled with partisan attacks and long opinion pieces." Sounds like today!
@criticaloptimist7961 Says:
George Washington didnt have the wherewithal to discern that Hamilton was sent by the Judeo-Babylonian banking establishment to ultimatley foil his efforts.
@ricardotabone3231 Says:
Excellent video! 🎉
@totallyperry Says:
I thought you were Vsauce.
@CHAOS-m1v Says:
He is not throwing away his shot
@Silent_Giants Says:
From a poor Caribbean boy to one of the Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton’s journey is the ultimate story of ambition, resilience, and vision. He designed America’s financial system, served beside George Washington, and proved that greatness is not inherited — it’s earned.
@EdwardandJessicaMiller Says:
Hamilton had open feuds with four of our first five Presidents. He even attempting to goad James Monroe into a duel just for his investigation into some of Hammy’s possible shady business deals.
He would have feuded with more Presidents, except Aaron Burr finally had enough of his smack talk and took him to task.
@davidrubenstein6129 Says:
How about his work on the aids epidemic in Africa? Also this speech at ground zero on September 12th. Also his failure to coordinate with FEMA in responding to hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Both positive and negative things he did during and after his re rms?
@josephclevenger1159 Says:
Watching this in 2025 it seems eerily similar to today😂
@josukehigashikata7578 Says:
The most handsome founding father.
@kerolishanemasod Says:
Rumors has it he still not satisfied.
@MalloryNewcomb Says:
“And there’s a million things I haven’t done… Just you wait, just you wait”
As I end this video, I wonder if Mr Hamilton himself might have contemplated how much more he might have done with his life had he not dueled with Burr. If he always believed he might die young. To me, it seems like he died the way he lived. Passionately, a bit recklessly but on his own principle. How rare a man for his death to indicate something about the kind of man he was yet not I’d like to think overshadow the life he lived.
Also, am I to understand Aaron Burr did mean to kill Hamilton?
@TomMason-io1yn Says:
Fastest narrator in the west🫡😤
@digitalunderdog-wp6gp Says:
Death? Boo hoo! OMG, I just can't even think of it!
@Skyler-fkutubf4es Says:
Damn it. Why isn't your British voice calming these f🤬n 🍄🍄🍄 down? What do I do to chill? Anybody HELP! I NEED CALMING MEDIA SUGGESTIONS!
@hfar_in_the_sky Says:
“What’s your name, man?”
@TheCoolJavelin7 Says:
Theatre kids learning history:
@2317-b1x Says:
If you want a friend in Washington Get a dog 🐕(Harry Truman)
@po1son_po1son Says:
the ten dollar founding father without a father😂
@StevenMeyer-i7v Says:
On the $10 💵dollar bill Alexzander Hamilton
@CREN13Queen Says:
I love all your videos on the American presidents. Could you do videos on the UK prime ministers? I can only see Thatcher, I'd love to know more about the historical prime ministers
@eliotvishnevsky5019 Says:
Hamilton had no control who lives who dies who tells his story.
@TTSS2 Says:
My dude just read the play to us?😂
@brucemontgomery1 Says:
I’m so great, aren’t I?
@cliffgaither Says:
@CuteDwarf11 ::
As the first Secretary-of-the-Treasurey, Hamilton's financial policies were also the first steps to Fascism ( at least by Mussolini's definition ).
There was nothing original in Hamilton's ideas about industry and government having a mutually parasitic relationship.
Colbert, of France, as Louis 14th's financial minister, was
the originator and he was much-more dynamic than Hamilton.
Hamilton's financial identity was the joining of government and industry.
_The Governmentalization of Corporations and the Corporatization of Government._
[ The Colonial Mind: 1620-1800
by Vernon L. Parrington, 1924 ]
Parrington gives details of Hamilton's "ruthlessness" on page 310.
Hamilton's belief that the government and industry have similar characteristics and interests and it is _understandable_ that life is unfair if the public's interests do not factor into that government/industry merger !
Hamilton was the _Henry Kissinger_ of the financial structure of the new government.
Vernon L. Parrington [ paraphrased ] ::
_Hamilton is best known for his political history in the formation of the United States' government ... but his real contributions are to the 📌ruthlessness of his plans with corporations and government mergers._
📌 "Ruthlessness" is the word Parrington used in his description of the character of the Broadway star.
@p33k75 Says:
Hamiltons lack of forsight led us to where we are currently.
$35+Trillion in debt.
@edwardmclaughlin7935 Says:
Well thanks Mr Hamilton, but your son has turned out a right bastard.
@dylanjohnson5712 Says:
My favorite founding father.
@nole8923 Says:
Unfortunately back in Hamiltons time there was little notion that a business, company, or financial institution could become so powerful as to usurp the power of the people and control the congress and even the presidency. FDR fixed that problem from the 1930s through the 1970s, until the corporatists and ruling class got their man Reagan in power. Since then they’ve been unraveling much of FDRs protections culminating in the repeal of Glass/Steagal and packing the Supreme Court with corporatists resulting in the Citizens United ruling which says that corporations are people and money is free speech. The result was the financial collapse of 2008-9. And that financial collapse destroyed whatever trust average Americans had in the Federal government and gave rise to the current era of conspiracy theories and things such as Q-anon, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump. Because of the 2008-9 financial collapse many Americans believe everything is a conspiracy and there is no trust. The danger in this is that it gives opportunities for demagogues like Hitler and Trump to come to power. Of course the real solution is to reinstate the FDR protections and the pre Reagan tax code that kept our financial system stable for 50 years and our middle class thriving. Unfortunately right wing corporatist news outlets would start screaming SOCIALISM!!! COMMUNISM!!! and most of the boomers and older gen-x would fall in lock step with these right wing corporatist news outlets even though it is against their own interests.
@miraeja Says:
the musical over romanticizes the wrong parts of hamilton and often misunderstands him. its just a weird musical tbh. but its fun i guess
@Wheelchairtravelchannel Says:
Nice summary of Hamilton's American economic influence and accomplishments!
@ericdeplata7803 Says:
Hamilton is badass on the ten dollar bill.
@GeorgeDoughty-m8e Says:
American here. The chaos in the US economy is the result of Hamiltonian policies. Those who understand despise Hamilton as much as Keynes. Freedom suffers because of this.
@joesmith942 Says:
Of the Founding Fathers, AH was the only true genius and visionary. He pretty much created modern finance out of nothing.
@crazyman8472 Says:
It must be nice to have Washington on your side… 😎
@jcipriano100 Says:
one of the sexiest men on you tube -- ALMOST ALWAYS - trim the beard and reclaim your "sexiest You Tuber" throne!! this isnt a bio of davy crockett!!!
@raplopez4258 Says:
24:00 perhaps if Burr didn't murder Hamilton, Burr (assumed to be an unethical man) would've jeopardized the success of the fledgling USA.
@terraguttierez2996 Says:
so what im hearing is thomas jefferson was in politics just to benefit his own state, and not his own country...... got it.
@4houndswhoheal479 Says:
Love how so many obnoxiously overdramaticly gay britains try to tell American history.
@ThatGuyXii1 Says:
Jefferson was 💯 on that he should mistrust a strong government as it opens the door to corruption & is associated with tyrannical rule, look where we are today, as private citizens we should be private but know everything about a government but it's flipped we know nothing of the government but they spy upon us..
@MtthwWpplngr Says:
I think this is the most consequential part of American history, and should be comprehensively taught in American history courses. The decision between having a state bank or private bank is such a defining thing for a nations sovereignty. It needs to be taught more in schools. The difficulty in the decision is that while a state run bank makes a government potentially more corrupt, a privately run bank makes the government more vulnerable to foreign influence, which is the root of communism.
@LeniiNero Says:
Eliza lost Peggy her sister, only to lose her son as well, while in mourning and lost her husband 2 years later the same way, in the same spot. And they had a toddler too. It was crazy. not to mention his eldest daughter went insance 3 years prior due to phillip's death
@LeniiNero Says:
omg i finally get the song ''my shot'' from the musical, its not just shot as in opportunity but shot as in literal bullet. wow
@LeniiNero Says:
How it never occured to Hamilton that Maria and her husband were scamming him is proof men think with their penises and not their brains
@lmktacwa Says:
Um. you stated st the beginning that admirers of the broadway play probably don't know Hamilton's full story. So I thought I would learn something new (I also read Chernow's Alexander Hamilton), but you pretty much just restated all the salient points depicted in the play, so this presentation is of the garden variety.
@MackenzieCorkern17 Says:
If we had a strong federal government with the best interest of the public at heart it would all be good but that's not what we got anymore.
@johnjensen6246 Says:
😢I'm something of a history buff...fondly remembering a history teacher i thought went in time as how he described ' John C. Calhoun vs Henry Clay...jn
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