The scandalous Hamiltons, a Gilded Age grifter, a Founding Father's disgraced descendant, and a trial at the dawn of tabloid journalism, Bill Shaffer
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The scandalous Hamiltons, a Gilded Age grifter, a Founding Father's disgraced descendant, and a trial at the dawn of tabloid journalism, Bill Shaffer
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The scandalous Hamiltons
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bibliography
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Bill Shaffer
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a Gilded Age grifter, a Founding Father's disgraced descendant, and a trial at the dawn of tabloid journalism
Summary
A sordid tale of bigamy, bribery, sex, and violence, set in the Gilded Age, explores the ill-fated saga of Ray, an Alexander Hamilton heir, and his wife, a con artist who tricked him into marriage using an abandoned infant, and who went to prison for stabbing their baby nurse
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- Married people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Biography
- Tabloid newspapers -- New York (State) -- New York
- Scandals -- New York (State) -- New York
- Hamilton, Robert Ray, 1851-1890
- Hamilton, Robert Ray, Mrs., Evangeline Steele
- Deception -- New York (State) -- New York
- Trials (Assault and battery) -- New York (State)
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- Creator1
- Subject8
- Married people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Biography
- Tabloid newspapers -- New York (State) -- New York
- Scandals -- New York (State) -- New York
- Hamilton, Robert Ray, 1851-1890
- Hamilton, Robert Ray, Mrs., Evangeline Steele
- Deception -- New York (State) -- New York
- Trials (Assault and battery) -- New York (State)
- Author1