Stephanie Dray's "My Dear Hamilton" Historic/Romatic Biopic on Eliza Hamilton

HAMILTON, for those living under a rock, is a Tony Award play on Broadway written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.  As Oscar Eustis, artistic dir. of The Public Theater said, "He's Shakespeare - there I've said it."  I say, Stephanie Dray has a way of teaching history, but it's no mystery - she's no Shakespeare.  Dray is a fictional writer with a proclivity for women whose lives are imbedded in monumental epochs & been overshadowed by the omnipotent men with historic legacies.  Miranda paid an immense homage to Eliza Hamilton (EH), in his show.  EH outlived AH 50 years & proved altruistic in many ways.  She created an orphanage which flourishes today in NYC known as Graham-Windham, cared for impoverished widows despite her own minimal means, & established the first school to educate Native American youths whose lives were & continue to be decimated by non-indigenous people.  I offer a smattering of applause for the immersion into our country's birth; pre, during & post Amer. Revolution.  We're offered a front row seat to the founding of our nation.  I don't offer a zealous ovation for the novel despite its interesting narration from Eliza because her frippery morphs the novel into a Harlequin romance.  Our founding fathers' pre-eminence; in particular Alexander Hamilton (AH), are quashed by the flirtatious & feeble depiction Dray portrayed EH.  Perhaps, Dray's intent was to present an early female pioneer in a prominent fashion but she doesn't pay EH any  great honor.  While AH's role in birthing, nurturing and solidifying our nation is imminent, she lavishes too much adulation on EH (which subjugates women as subservient).  EH speaks throughout in 1st person to the reader.  Towards the end of her life's diatribe Washington is being canonized & EH tells us "Washington might be first in the hearts of his country men.  But this is AH's country."  She lauds her husband' "I live in a better world because of Alexander Hamilton.  And so do we all.  It's the promise he fulfilled while other men took credit for it."  AH did accomplish much in helping found our nation's and was privy to the lives of other extraordinary men of this epoch.  I admire EH's candor for calling out the disingenuous foundation of equality "...the great project of securing human rights through our revolution remains unfinished."  Still, EH is shamefully hypocritical for retaining slaves as did members of her family.  Reminders of our significant history is all too easily forgotten.  Dray's enrichment of our past is valuable.  In summary, AH's brilliance & essential contributions and  failings are measured & the sum of his life is deemed with great esteem.  Dray's novel is merely admirable.