{"author":"Jeremy McCarter","author_id":"Jeremy+McCarter","total_quotes":3,"quotes":[{"text":"On opening night, standing under the Rogers's marquee, [Lin] realized that if Eliza's struggle was the element of Hamilton's story that had inspired him the most, then the show itself was a part of her legacy.","author":"Jeremy McCarter","tags":["alexander-hamilton","eliza","eliza-hamilton","hamilton","legacy","legacy","lin-manuel-miranda"],"id":2440,"author_id":"Jeremy+McCarter"},{"text":"Serving [Hamilton's] legacy didn't just mean commemorating him, though: It also meant continuing his work. [Eliza] crusaded against slavery, as Hamilton had. And this widow of an orphan helped to found the first private orphanage in New York. That's the real power of a legacy: We tell stories of people who are gone because like any powerful stories, they have the potential to inspire, and to change the world.","author":"Jeremy McCarter","tags":["alexander-hamilton","eliza","eliza-hamilton","hamilton","legacy","legacy"],"id":288494,"author_id":"Jeremy+McCarter"},{"text":"The comparison might strike you as farfetched. What (you might be asking) can a Broadway musical possibly add to the legacy of a Founding Father--a giant of our national life, a war hero, a scholar, a statesman? What's one little play, or even one very big play, next to all that? But there is more than one way to change the world . To secure their freedom, the polyglot American colonists had to come together, and stick together, in the face of enormous adversity. To live in a new way, they first had to think and feel in a new way. It took guns and ships to win the American Revolution, but it also required pamphlets and speeches--and at least one play.","author":"Jeremy McCarter","tags":["america","hamilton"],"id":438672,"author_id":"Jeremy+McCarter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}