Here's What Inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda To Write A Musical About Alexander Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda is opening up about just how the idea of a hip-hop musical of Hamilton came to him.
In several interviews, the 40-year-old composer revealed that he was about to go on vacation when he randomly picked up a biography on the founding father.
“I was just browsing the biography section. It could have been Truman,” he told 60 Minutes. “I got to the part where a hurricane destroys St. Croix, where Hamilton is living. And he writes a poem about the carnage and this