Bill Shaffer

Gebundenes Buch

The Scandalous Hamiltons

A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

Beschreibung

"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"--]cProvided by publisher.

Autor

Bill Shaffer is the author of The Scanbdalous Hamiltons, George Nelson and The Design of Time, and Emotion in Motion: 55 Baranger Displays. He has been published on designobserver.com and the online site of Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, where he was a Smithsonian Fellow. He holds an M.A., History of Design and Curatorial Studies from Parsons, The New School. He and his wife live in New York City, not far from the historic Hamilton fountain, endowed by the subject of this book. Visit him at billshafferbooks.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 225g
• ISBN-13: 9780806542256
• ISBN-10: 080654225X
• Artikelnr.: 62890944