Pride and Pleasure - Amanda Vaill

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN BIOGRAPHYFINALIST 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
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