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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
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Biographies GeneralGeneral World HistoryRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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ISBN10: 1250448255
ISBN13: 9781250448255
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 720
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250448255
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 720
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN BIOGRAPHY
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY
Marvelous . . . An act not only of recovery, but of world building. --The Atlantic
A thoroughly fascinating biography, filled with Vaill's signature warmth, humor and insight. --The New York Times Book Review Elegantly written, intimately detailed and infused with feeling, a gripping account of these two remarkable women, their elite family and their tumultuous era. --The Wall Street Journal
One of our great biographers takes the sisters out of Hamilton's supporting cast and puts them front and center. --Town & Country America's founding era reconsidered through the lives of two women as formidable as, and in some respects stronger than, the men they loved, married, and mothered. If it hadn't been for the Revolutionary War, things might have been very different for the two women Alexander Hamilton came to describe as his dear brunettes. Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, daughters of colonial Hudson Valley aristocracy, would have followed their family's expectations, making dynastic marriages and supervising substantial households--but they didn't. Instead, they became embroiled in the turmoil of America's insurrection against Great Britain, and rebelled themselves, in ways as different as each sister was from the other, against the destiny mapped out for them. Glamorous Angelica, who sought fulfillment in attachments to powerful men, eloped with a war profiteer and led a luxurious life, charming Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the Prince of Wales. Eliza, too candid for flirtation and uninterested in influence or intrigue, married a penniless outsider, Alexander Hamilton, and devoted herself to his career; but after his appointment as America's first treasury secretary, she was challenged by the public and private controversies that plagued him--not least of all the attraction that grew between him and her adored sister. When tragedy followed, everything changed for both women: one was deprived of her animating spirit, while the other gained a new, self-determined life. Drawing on deep archival research, Amanda Vaill interweaves this family drama with its historical context, creating a narrative with the sweep and intimacy of a nineteenth-century novel. Full of battles and dinner parties, murky politics and transparent frocks, fierce loyalties and betrayals both public and personal, Pride and Pleasure brings two extraordinary American heroines to life.
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