Ignorance times two

In a recent review of the book How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America, by Brion McClanahan, Jay Lehr writes:

[McClanahan] takes up the task of separating the myths surrounding Alexander Hamilton — including Lin-Manuel Miranda’s recent Broadway play, inserting the president into popular culture — from the truth. ... McClanahan traces how Hamilton, his Supreme Court appointees John Marshall and Joseph Story, and a more contemporary disciple of the Hamiltonian philosophy, Supreme Court Chief Justice Hugo Black — for [sic] increasing the federal government’s power at the state’s expense.

Thus, in just a couple of sentences, Lehr reveals his ignorance not only of English grammar, but also of American history: Alexander Hamilton was never president and therefore did not appoint John Marshall and Joseph Story to the Supreme Court. Of course, Real Clear Markets should also be taken to task for allowing such rubbish to be published on its website.