Episode 3 - "Alexander Hamilton: The Federal Republic"
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Episode 3 - "Alexander Hamilton: The Federal Republic"
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Alexander Hamilton finally steps into the office he designed — and discovers that governing a nation built in your own image is the hardest kind of leadership.
In this alternate republic, the United States never loses a battle in the Revolution — and never looks back.
Hamilton’s presidency accelerates emancipation, rewires the economy, and transforms morality into public policy.
Factories hum beside churches. Freedmen become pioneers. Inspectors become priests of progress.
But perfection has a cost.
The same precision that frees a nation begins to strangle its spirit, and by 1808 the people quietly decide they want a heartbeat instead of a blueprint.
When Hamilton steps aside after two disciplined terms, James Madison’s victory doesn’t undo his legacy — it humanizes it.
This episode traces the rise, rule, and retirement of the most relentless mind in American history — a man who proved that order can build freedom… until freedom decides to rearrange it.
🎧 Listen as host T.J. Hall dissects the presidency history never got — and the republic that learned how to breathe without its architect.