Gertrude Atherton set out to write a biography of Alexander Hamilton and found herself writing a novel instead. She begins on Nevis with his mother, Rachael, follows the boy to New York, the Revolution and Washington’s staff, and on through marriage, the Constitution, the Treasury and his rivalries, preserving the historical sequence throughout.
A vivid, partisan fictional life of Hamilton, for readers who want the founding era as drama. Download the free EPUB.