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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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"In this incredible dual biography of the famous Schuyler sisters, Amanda Vaill explores the fascinating lives of Angelica Schuyler Church and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in this densely packed and informative new release. Following their shared child"
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"Since I have seen Hamilton, the play with the original cast, on TV many, many times, this was a real joy to read.
I also watched Ken Burns' American Revolution on PBS so this was more information about different battles and places. I was surprised abou" Read more of this review » |
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"Through the Schuyler women the story American Revolution and the fledgling nation is told. You see the interpersonal relationships of the major players and the roles that love, competition and jealousy play.
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution:
"This is the best non-fiction book I've read in ages. It's definitely in my top 10 ever.
Amanda Vaill has managed to tell the stories of Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy Schuyler (mostly the first two, if I'm being precise) without their ever being overshado" Read more of this review » |
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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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| Bright Young Things: March 2014- Everybody was so Young by Amanda Vaill | 18 | 29 | Mar 25, 2014 04:50AM | |
| Bright Young Things: February 2014- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald | 66 | 142 | Jun 12, 2014 02:24AM | |
| Bright Young Things: Book on the Murphy's | 5 | 13 | Aug 04, 2014 12:49PM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: Bella's 2016 Challenges | 5 | 45 | Jan 21, 2016 04:15PM | |
| Bright Young Things: What book have you just finished? | 673 | 249 | Sep 17, 2017 11:00AM | |
| Bright Young Things: What are you currently reading? | 928 | 281 | Sep 17, 2017 12:01PM | |
| Bright Young Things: New Discoveries | 872 | 322 | Feb 06, 2019 04:45PM | |
| Reading the 20th ...: Kindle offers (2020) | 771 | 98 | Jan 03, 2021 10:49PM |
Lost Generation
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In the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term 'lost generation' to describe the group of ...more
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Meaningful books and the impact they have on our lives. When my mother was dying of pancreatic cancer, I would often go with her to chemo, and we wou ...more
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A group for avid readers and writers of biography
