She recently visited the Hamilton's' gravesite at Trinity Church in New York City, leaving for Hamilton a shell she picked up in Nevis during her research trip, and a spray of roses for Eliza, who is 'buried at his feet.' Cobbs said she made a vow to leave the shell if the book got picked up and published.Ĭobbs has a non-fiction book coming out in the next six months, titled 'The Hello Girls,' about military telephone switchboard operators. 'Places do mean so much to me,' she said. While in the area, she said she's hoping she'll get to Yorktown, where Hamilton helped lead the siege that drove the British out of the colonies to end the Revolutionary War. It's a 'wonderful, enthusiastic community of people interested in these subjects,' Cobbs said. With flawless writing, brilliantly drawn characters, and epic scope, The Hamilton Affair tells a story of love forged in revolution and tested by the bitter strife of young America, and will take its place among the greatest novels of American history ever written.Cobbs said her first big signing was in Washington, D.C., but is glad her book tour is taking her to Williamsburg. Together, the unlikely couple braved the dangers of war, the perils of seduction, the anguish of infidelity, and the scourge of partisanship that menaced their family and the country itself.

Elizabeth was the wealthy, beautiful, adventurous daughter of the respectable Schuyler clan-and a pioneering advocate for women. Admired by George Washington, scorned by Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton was a lightning rod: the most controversial leader of the new nation. Hamilton was a bastard and orphan, raised in the Caribbean and desperate for legitimacy, who became one of the American Revolution's most dashing-and improbable-heroes. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from passionate and tender beginnings of their romance to his fateful duel on the banks of the Hudson River. ' A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton.' - Cosmopolitan

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