![]() ![]() Retrospectively, Eliza confesses: “I hadn’t married a man. One of those young men, George Washington’s aide-de-camp, was Alexander Hamilton. Her father was a general, and through him she met most of the prominent young men who figured so importantly in the Revolutionary War and in the founding of the United States. Eliza Schuyler Hamilton came from well-to-do New Netherlands stock. Most important, it delves into the life and imagined heart and mind of a woman who is living history as it develops, a woman whose entire being is caught up in the crucial events of her time. Of course, My Dear Hamilton, like America’s First Daughter, goes far beyond the fictional explication of a founding father. ![]() Now the two authors have repeated this investigative pattern, looking at Alexander Hamilton through the eyes of his wife, Eliza. ![]() Such was the task undertaken by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, whose first novel, America’s First Daughter (which I reviewed in “Bookin’ with Sunny” in August 2016) exposed Thomas Jefferson by focusing on his daughter. Perhaps it takes fiction to bring real chaos to life. Dray and Kamoie set us straight.Ĭlearly, my generation of school children was taught a sanitized version of United States history! I assumed that the origins of our country were untidy, but I don’t think I ever fully appreciated how truly messy the American Revolution in fact was. history seldom taught to school children. MY DEAR HAMILTON, the unsanitized version of U.S. ![]()
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