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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 Cover Image Book Book

The scandalous Hamiltons : a Gilded Age grifter, a Founding Father's disgraced descendant, and a trial at the dawn of tabloid journalism / Bill Shaffer.

Shaffer, Bill, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780806542256
  • ISBN: 080654225X
  • Physical Description: viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., [2022]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, etc.:
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's nurse.

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Subject: Hamilton, Robert Ray, Mrs. (Evangeline Steele)
Hamilton, Robert Ray.
Married people > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Trials (Assault and battery) > New York (State)
Scandals > New York (State) > New York.
Deception > New York (State) > New York.
Tabloid newspapers > New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951 > Biography.

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Deep River Public Library 346.16 Shaf (Text) 36039153314675 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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