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A review by sam_riccio
Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough
5.0
A lot of people became fascinated with Alexander Hamilton and the founding fathers because of the musical 'Hamilton' but I have to admit that when I was in the 7th grade, my Geography teacher hated Geography, so instead of teaching us anything about it, he taught us American History and focused on Revolutionary War for most of the school year...so, I have a huge passion for learning about this time period and the Founding Fathers in general.
This book was one of the best I've come around for many reasons; the paper that it's printed on and the font make it easy for me to read it and not get a headache, Brockenbrough includes a lot of details about people that we don't learn about often in history; I didn't know the name of Rachel Fawcett or that Hamilton had any siblings, I had no idea that there were more people working for Washington the same way that Hamilton was.
I loved that there were portraits and photos included, and a timeline in the back, and the epilogue was more historical facts about the time periods than the rest of the Hamilton family. This was one of the easiest books to digest about a historical figure, and I think it has more to do with it being aimed at a younger audience (I bought this from the YA section) but we don't need stuffy and boring biographies for them to be interesting we just need them to be written in modern word like this one was.
This book was one of the best I've come around for many reasons; the paper that it's printed on and the font make it easy for me to read it and not get a headache, Brockenbrough includes a lot of details about people that we don't learn about often in history; I didn't know the name of Rachel Fawcett or that Hamilton had any siblings, I had no idea that there were more people working for Washington the same way that Hamilton was.
I loved that there were portraits and photos included, and a timeline in the back, and the epilogue was more historical facts about the time periods than the rest of the Hamilton family. This was one of the easiest books to digest about a historical figure, and I think it has more to do with it being aimed at a younger audience (I bought this from the YA section) but we don't need stuffy and boring biographies for them to be interesting we just need them to be written in modern word like this one was.