I have just finished best-selling author Ron Chernow’s 800-page biography of Alexander Hamilton upon which the wildly popular Broadway musical is based. I remember from my middle and high school classes that Hamilton, along with George Washington, James Monroe, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and others, guided our independence from Great Britain. Then these Founding Fathers led us through the transition from 13 states with Articles of Confederation to one nation united by a central government with the U.S. Constitution and a Bill of Rights.