Alongside Hamilton: My Unlikely Friendship With an Ivy League Athlete, High Society Bachelor, Roosevelt Rough Rider, American Hero

It's 1893 and thirteen-year-old Rory Mac, a poor, fatherless newsboy for Pulitzer's New York World, needs a break. He gets one when Hamilton "Ton" Fish, a member of the storied Fish family and star athlete at Columbia University, asks him to work his corner for an underground boxing match at McSorley's Alehouse, setting in motion an unexpected but inspiring friendship.

Ton gives Rory Mac someone to look up to and access to realms he could previously only dream of--New York's smart set, the p...