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SUMMARY:Amanda Vaill launches her new book Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in the Age of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler\, born to wealth and privilege in New York’s Hudson Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century\, were raised to make good marriages and supervise substantial households. Instead they became embroiled in the turmoil of America’s insurrection against Great Britain—and rebelled themselves\, in ways as different as each was from the other\, against the destiny mapped out for them. \nGlamorous Angelica\, who sought fulfillment through attachments to powerful men\, eloped at twenty with a war profiteer and led a luxurious life\, first in Paris\, then in London\, charming Benjamin Franklin\, Thomas Jefferson\, and the Prince of Wales. Eliza\, one year her junior\, too candid for flirtation and uninterested in influence or intrigue\, married a penniless illegitimate outsider\, Alexander Hamilton\, and devoted herself to his career. But after his appointment as America’s first Treasury Secretary\, she was challenged by the controversies in which he became involved\, not the least of which was the attraction that grew between him and her adored sister. \nWhen tragedy followed\, everything changed for both women: one deprived of her animating spirit\, the other improbably gaining a new\, self-determined life. “You would not have suffered if you had married into a family less near the sun\,” wrote Angelica to Eliza\, “but then [you would have missed] the pride\, the pleasure\, the nameless satisfactions.” \nDrawing on deep archival research\, including never-published records and letters\, 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 loyalty and betrayals both public and personal\, Pride and Pleasure brings two extraordinary American heroines to life.
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