The Summit County Library continues the Adult Fall Reading Program’s events tomorrow, October 20 at 6:30 pm with Dr. Hal Bidlack portraying Alexander Hamilton in the Buffalo Mountain Room at the Frisco County Commons.
According to Colorado Humanities website, “General Hamilton was a self-made man in an era when the term meant much more. He rose from poverty and an ignoble birth to become a general, a leader, and the founder of our economic and legal systems.”
During Bidlack’s portrayal he will focus on Hamilton’s breadth of service in uniform, in office, and with the quill. “After serving as George Washington's closest aide, General Hamilton earned a combat command where he led his troops from the front, and was the first man over the walls during the climactic Battle of Yorktown,” states the website. “At the age of 32, he was this nation's first Secretary of Treasury. He was the author of a variety of pamphlets calling for the American Revolution, and was the principal author of the Federalist Papers, perhaps the greatest writing on American political thought ever crafted.”
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