I feel like I also learned more about the Schuyler family and Eliza's time as a daughter, sister, wife, and widow. And while politics are still in the story, the focus is more on the relationships. There is more time spent on the childhoods of Alexander and Eliza, and the author spent time in the West Indies while she researched. It reminds me of the book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, where Elizabeth Gilbert explains where ideas come from and how sometimes they occur simultaneously. Just to get that out of the way, as some reviews have said something like, 'She ripped off Hamilton!' Good research will find the same information. There is some remarkable overlap in specific lines, but this is because they both used the same primary sources! You'll find some of the same content in Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, and, I imagine, Alexander Hamilton. The author worked on this when Hamilton was still a lesser known founding father instead of an award winning musical. This is for fans of Hamilton-the-Musical or a solid historical narrative focusing on female characters or historical romance. With its flawless writing, brilliantly drawn characters, and epic scope, The Hamilton Affair will take its place among the greatest novels of American history. The only “founding mother” to truly embrace public service, she raised 160 children in addition to her own.

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton started New York’s first orphanage. In 1816 (two centuries ago), she shamed Congress into supporting his seven orphaned children. She pursued him despite his illegitimacy, and loved him despite his infidelity. When she met Alexander, she fell head over heels. She was the well-to-do daughter of one of New York’s most exalted families-feisty, adventurous, and loyal to a fault. Adored by Washington, hated by Jefferson, Hamilton was a lightning rod: the most controversial leader of the American Revolution. Along the way he became one of the American Revolution’s most dashing-and unlikely-heroes. He went to America to pursue his education.

Hamilton was a bastard son, raised on the Caribbean island of St.

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet ending-his at a dueling ground on the shores of the Hudson River, hers more than half a century later after a brave, successful life.

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