we talked to the director thomas kail and also the star and creator lin-manuel miranda. >> the story of our country's sowngd is an extraordinary one and to tell it from the perspective of the guy that wasn't born here was my way in. my parents were born in the caribbean they were born at puerto rico not speaking english. you experience the country when you come here at a different age. that's my story. >> rose: we conclude with michael mewshaw called sympathy for the delve, four decades of friendship with gore vidal. >> with the image and reality of the man, he was a case that has been said that celebrity is a mask that eats the face or mailer said anybody becomes fames at a young age which vidal did at the age of 21 lives only in the tzar cough gust of his own image. and i think gore felt a prisoner of what he had created in his, this image he created of himself and he never wanted to admit weakness, never wanted to admit fear. >> rose: the story of hamilton and the friendship with gore vida l when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> rose: addit

thomas kail: hamilton knew they would be bound forever to read that would ensure his legacy as someone spoken about, he becomes slightly obsolete. some buddy who had thought about death so much. here he was, toward the end, not empowered or able to effect change. we talked early on. it is a credit of the writing. we have seen a lot of stories about to enemies. let's make a story about two people who were dear and complex friends and one kills his friend. lin-manuel: who were soldiers, lawyers, statesmen together. charlie: you thought about playing burr? lin-manuel: every time i wrote a song, i thought, i should do it. he gets all the best songs of the show. now, you cannot imagine. it really fits leslie. he gets these wonderful moments. one my favorites being the room where it happens. he is talking about not in power. scene hamilton trade away the capital exchange for his financial plan. charlie: this is you at the white house in 2009, performing the first rap song you wrote for hamilton. lin-manuel: ♪ dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the caribbean the $10 founding father

we talk to the director thomas kail and also the star and creator lyn manual moramza. >> you sit in a room for six years making something and you have the wildest dreams version of you had you think a show will be received. and we're experiencing that. so we're just trying to hang on while we can. i started writing this in 2008 while i was in high inn my show in the heights. i was on vacation pie first vacation of the show and i picked up the books at random, at borders. just knowing that -- >> you said i will take this one. >> just said it had great reviews on the back and i knew he died in a dual so i knew it would have a bang ending. and fell in love with the story really the dikenzian nature of the hamilton's life. >> explain that. >> the place where you say dicens dicens and dicens. what was the dicensian-- of his life. >> he was born in nivez possibly out of wed lock his father split by the time he was ten years ol. his mother died in bed with him a few short years later. his brother was apprentice so he was-- was by himself. he got sent to live with a cousin after his mother's