Tony-award winning playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda ("In the Heights") is the talk of the arts world these days over his critically acclaimed off-Broadway production "Hamilton," which will starts its Broadway run this summer.
Miranda, a New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, has created an energetic, hip-hop laden account of one of America's founding fathers and most fascinating historical figures, Alexander Hamilton. In an extended conversation with MSNBC host Chris Hayes - who is friends with Miranda since high school - the playwright and composer explains what drew him to reinvent the biography of the nation's first Treasury Secretary. Hamilton's extraordinary life - he was a "bastard" son born in the island of Nevis who emigrated to the U.S. - is a quintessentially American story of genius and reinvention.