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Today, Americans take so many things for granted. As a nation with a limited attention span and a constant need for instant gratification, we conveniently overlook our own heritage and the difficult work of a few statesmen almost two and a half centuries ago. All of us have handled a ten-dollar bill at one time in our lives, but have we ever stopped to understand the complexities and the vision of the man who appears on that bill? The legacy of Alexander Hamilton lives on in many of our political and economic conventions to this day.
