Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

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. Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, daughters of colonial Hudson Valley aristocracy, became embroiled in the turmoil of America's insurrection against Great Britain, and rebelled themselves against the destiny mapped out for them. Glamorous Angelica eloped with a war profiteer and led a luxurious life charming Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the Prince of Wales. Eliza married a penniless outsider, Alexander Hamilton, and devoted herself to his career, but was challenged by the controversies that plagued him—not least the attraction that grew between him and her adored sister. When tragedy followed, everything changed for both women. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.