The Scandalous Hamiltons A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shafferfer

 This is a fascinating and well-researched story of a privileged son of The Gilded Age and a girl 'from the wrong side of the tracks'. Robert Ray was descended from Alexander Hamilton himself and had a wealthy, educated background. He was very bright. After he paid a few dollars for the prostitute Evangeline Steele in New York, he was in for a terrible shock, and the start of a descent from grace. They married a few years later after she told him that she was pregnant, but they soon began fighting. When Evangeline attacked the baby's nurse with a knife, Robert found himself forced to face the trial of a century, and discovered that what Evangeline had told him was a pack of lies, and even more scandals lay ahead...

I enjoyed this, but not as much as reading about the endlessly interesting Alexander.

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 ISBN         9780806542256

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