"[On May 12, 2009 Miranda performed Alexander Hamilton - now the first song in the Hamilton musical - at the White House.] That night, Lin reintroduced people to the poor kid from the Caribbean who made the country rich and strong, an immigrant who came here to build a life for himself and ended up helping to build the nation. He is the prototype for millions of men and women who followed him, and continue to arrive today."
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Jeremy McCarter, from page 15 of the augmented Hamilton libretto, Hamilton: The Revolution (2016), by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9781455539741.
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