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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:
"A wonderful book that recasts the events of early America through the personal lives of two women who were at the center of it all. Much of the history here is familiar but feels much more immediate and strange from this perspective. The details are "
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"One is reminded how difficult it was for the founding generation to assemble a republic. The desperate number of personalities, interests, and public philosophies that needed to be merged into a coherent system of governance was staggering. Vaill's w"
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"A deep dive into American history, from colonial days through the 1850s, told through the experiences of the women who lived alongside the "founders" of the new nation. Impeccably researched details make a large cast of family and friends easy to fol"
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"I was fascinated listening to the audio. So well researched and I think I like learning history thru a biography (this one won the 2026 Pulitzer). What is amazing is that if these writings were not saved we would never have the play Hamilton and this"
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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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