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

Pride and Pleasure is a dual biography of Angelica and Eliza Schuyler, the sisters made famous by the musical Hamilton. Amanda Vaill follows them through the American Revolution and the early decades of the United States, from Angelica’s first meeting with Alexander Hamilton at her sister’s wedding to Hamilton’s contested economic policies and his fatal duel with Aaron Burr. The book continues into Eliza’s fifty years as a widow, managing heavy debts. It combines biography with narrative history of the period.