How ‘Hamilton’ helped shape policy on US currency

The Boston Globe reports:

Jackson has not been similarly smiled upon by Washington power-brokers, Broadway composers, or posterity.

Once considered a hero for leading troops to victory in the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, he has since fallen far from favor. In “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,’’ which ran on Broadway in 2010-2011, Jackson was depicted as charismatic but violent and essentially vapid, relentless in his self-serving pursuit of fame, brutal in his treatment of Native Americans, and even a bit deranged. For many theatergoers, the rock musical was an opportunity to learn about the dark past of a figure few thought about much anymore.

Paying off the national debt is definitely frowned upon by progressives.