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A Master Passion is the story of our brilliant first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, and his wife, Betsy Schuyler.

It begins with their Revolutionary War courtship. Although born poor and illegitimate, as an Aide de Camp to General George Washington, Hamilton dares to reach, boldly pursuing Betsy, daughter of a wealthy and prominent New York family.

After the war, Hamilton engages in nation building. Like all mission-driven men, he is preoccupied, often absent, and not the best provider. The trials of making ends meet and raising their ever-growing troop of children falls to Betsy, who accomplishes her task with grace and devotion.

Conflict is built into their marriage. It does not simply spring from Alexander's agonizing childhood experience of bastardy, abuse, and abandonment. To quote Alexander Pope, Hamilton's favorite poet

“And hence one Master Passion in the breast
like Aaron's serpent, swallows up all the rest..."

Betsy's passion is Alexander. Alexander's passion is America.

Though Hamilton's financial acumen and political courage is crucial to the formation and survival of our nation, his star sets quickly. Disillusioned, political power broken, his adored eldest son killed in a duel, Hamilton goes to his own famous duel with Aaron Burr in the spirit of those noble Romans he so steadfastly admires, preferring death to dishonor.

The Master Passion places the battles of Alexander Hamilton, the lonely idealist, within a family saga rich in period detail. The great edifice for which he laid the groundwork -- America -- has become, exactly as he planned, the richest and freest country on earth.

If you enjoyed Stephanie Dray’s America’s First Daughter, you will love A Master Passion by Juliet Waldron

Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton A Master Passion edition by Juliet Waldron Literature Fiction eBooks

This author certainly does know how to conjure up the 18th century, whether in Europe or in Colonial America! She brings the same vivid touch to this story of the passionate, sometimes tumultuous marriage between the one true genius of the American Revolution and his devoted, much-put-upon wife, as she did to the life of Mozart and Constanze in her novel "Mozart's Wife."

Intellectually, Hamilton was a dazzling figure, but also a deeply flawed man who never quite overcame his traumatic childhood. Waldron suggests he was sexually abused as a boy— raped repeatedly by the man who employed him. Although there’s no proof of that, and it’s not something a historian could suggest, for a novelist it makes good psychological sense. Sometimes sexually abused children grow up to be sexually promiscuous adults, which Hamilton certainly was.

There’s less explicit sex in this novel than Waldron's "My Mozart," but there’s enough to suggest the passionate connection the couple enjoyed. The author is also very good in describing the hectic family life of the Hamilton’s and their numerous, very individual children.

The only aspect of the novel that struck me as “off” was the author's portrayal of George Washington as such a frigid, distant figure, and a man who had no rapport with children. She apparently forgot (or didn’t know?) that GW raised his wife’s children and also several of his step-grandchildren, as well as assorted other young wards, and he was devoted to all of them. She also pays little or no attention to the fact that Washington made considerable efforts to include Hamilton among his intimate friends, but the younger man always rebuffed him, and eventually broke with his mentor over a trifle. She doesn’t even include a mention of Washington’s death, which plunged the entire country into mourning!

Product details

  • File Size 3371 KB
  • Print Length 495 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage Unlimited
  • Publisher BWL Publishing Inc. (August 21, 2015)
  • Publication Date August 21, 2015
  • Language English
  • ASIN B014AY2YU0

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