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Amanda Vaill
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Waiting for It
... That’s kind of how you feel when you’re waiting for the public unveiling of something you’ve spent years of work and emotional, psychological, and intellectual capital on: as if you’re walking unprotected into a falling rock zone.
Fortunately, the first substantial “public” review of Hotel Florida has just appeared – early! – in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and it’s not a falling rock, it’s a bo Read more of this blog post »
Fortunately, the first substantial “public” review of Hotel Florida has just appeared – early! – in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and it’s not a falling rock, it’s a bo Read more of this blog post »
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"What a unique and fascinating biography of the female counterparts to the founding fathers. I was completely engrossed and learned so much more about the layers and complexities of the interpersonal dynamics of the time - between colleagues, rivals, "
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"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Amanda Vaill's "Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution". I had not heard of these women until they were characters in the musical "Hamilton. The sisters, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton and Angelica Schu"
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Wallace McKenzie's review
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"Wonderful book that details the lives of the Schuyler sisters who came from a well known / influential family in NY. Eliza, who married Alexander Hamilton, lived to be 97 and outlived Hamilton by 5 decades before dying in 1854. Book also discusses Ha"
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"This one is great! Part of the story is Alexander Hamilton and the American Revolution but the real star is his wife, Eliza Schuyler. She outlived him by half a century and became an American institution."
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Hi, Vincent! Thanks for your question. Much as I love the Schuyler Sisters (indeed, the whole Schuyler family is fascinating), I think I've said as much as I can about them. There are some open questions about parts of their history, which I've drawn
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“Next year, however, the legislators who witnessed Hamilton’s speech from the gallery will pass a new libel law, allowing truth as a defense to a libel charge “where published with good motive and for justifiable ends.” And sixteen years later, in 1821, this principle will be incorporated into New York’s second constitution. Hamilton, though, won’t be there to see it.”
― Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
― Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
“We have always believed it good to leave a place before it leaves you.”
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
“Le Bal du comte d’Orgel.”
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
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