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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.
- Sales Rank: #44432 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-08-21
- Released on: 2015-08-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"A thoroughly researched and engaging biographical fiction based on the lives of Alexander Hamilton and his devoted wife, Elizabeth Schuyler. Once again, Ms. Waldron illuminates both the joys and the trials of a strong woman married to an often-abstracted genius."
Sara B. Camilli, Beta Reader
From the Author
Alexander Hamilton has been in my life since I was ten, with his rags to respectability--never riches--tale. He came to America, like so many others, with nothing but the head on his shoulders. As a teen, he'd fought for freedom. He'd won the respect of the commanding general and gained the hand of a lady. He fought tirelessly to get his brilliant--but far-less well-informed colleagues--to understand and accept his financial plans. If Alexander Hamilton hadn't created a system to unite those thirteen colonies by getting them to agree to pay the debts incurred to our fighting men--and to the businessmen who'd backed the War of Independence--the United States as we know it would have never happened.
But Hamilton was an immigrant, a fact his enemies never forgot or forgave. Worse, he was born illegitimate, and arrived on these shores through the charity of the planters of St. Croix. He was called slightingly, "Creole," or, with frank hostility by John Adams, "the bastard brat of a Scots peddler."
Recently, these themes moved Hamilton back into public consciousness. A few years after Ron Chernow wrote his exceptional biography, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a multi-talented first generation American, had his original hip-hop "Hamilton" storm onto Broadway. I'm just a country girl, so I didn't know that until I'd just finished editing an old in-the-drawer story, A Master Passion.
Frankly, as a long time Hamiltonian, Lin-Manuel's show cheers me. Here in the 21st Century, while McLuhan's medium works a sea change upon us, it's probably the perfect way to communicate the story of this extraordinary man, one we were lucky to have had present at America's founding.
We all work in the media with which we're familiar. The one I know best is that of an aged and hybrid genre--the historical novel. I've written about another great man's spouse in Mozart's Wife and so naturally Hamilton's Betsy became a large part of A Master Passion as well. Her life, as well as his, sometimes reads like fiction.
Study of the "founding mothers" is (and will probably remain) a minor specialty, simply from a lack of material. 18th Century women hoped to preserve their privacy by destroying personal letters, so very often I've had to infer what might have been going on in someone's head, or elaborate and fictionalize from tidbits of information gleaned during the long time of research.
Hamilton is such a protean character that in order to produce a coherent whole I've had to omit whole episodes--important people and places--or conflate events, which I hope readers will forgive. I wanted to focus on the marriage.
Scarred by childhood violence, poverty and humiliation, Hamilton could be vain and brash, impatient with slower minds. He injured his friends and family with a sordid love-affair. His insecurity and his fury towards enemies who dragged his good name through the mud caused the political missteps which destroyed his political career. He might even be seen as the engineer of his own death.
So that's my subject: a fatally flawed great man. I've tried to I tackle these his-and-hers blockbuster stories in my own way, often through the POV of his loving (and often) dismayed wife, as an old-fashioned historical novel.
About the Author
Juliet Waldron has lived in many US states, in the UK and the West Indies. She earned a B. A. in English, but has worked at jobs ranging from artist's model to brokerage. Thirty years ago, after her sons left home, she dropped out of 9-5 and began to write, hoping to create a genuine time travel experience for her readers.
She's a grandmother, a cat lady, and a dedicated reader of history and herstory. She loves music, from classical to pop.
Juliet spends a lot of her time visiting other centuries, but she's also quite certain she doesn't want to live in any of them. She's known Alexander Hamilton since they were both eleven and living in the West Indies.
On summer afternoons, she and her husband of fifty years quietly roam the back roads of PA on his black Hayabusa, often ending up at the Carsonville Hotel.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
HAMILTON LIVES!
By Patricia A. Martin
I have been a fan of Ms. Waldron's writing since she arrived on Amazon, and her newest book, The Master Passion, has been worth waiting for. So many authors simply rehash old facts, trying to respin history ... Ms. Waldron revisits Alexander Hamilton as we have never seen him, and he becomes true flesh and blood, not simply a figure of the past. Her research is clearly impeccable, and she has been able to give full voice to characters seldom (if ever) written about in Hamilton's life. He was truly a tortured soul, but no more than any other passionate, driven man (or woman, for that matter, as Kostanze in Mozart's Wife, or Genesee, in the book by the same name). The reader is treated to the early years of Hamilton's life, and the burden of being truly a bastard in the days when it really mattered. His lifelong journey from an unwanted child to a founding father becomes an adventure that lasts through the final chapter. Kudos to Ms. Waldron, and thanks from one of her legion of fans.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Intensely real and readable
By Meredith Whitford
I know very little about American history, and all I knew about Alexander Hamilton is that he's rather a hero to several friends of mine. After reading Juliet Waldron's excellent novel about him I'm starting to see why. Waldron is a novelist who can be relied upon to have researched her subject thoroughly, so, in reading about people and an era unfamiliar to me, I felt I was in safe hands. But don't let me give the impression that this book is a dry piece of work -- on the contrary, it's extremely readable, in fact I found it close to unputdownable as the story took shape and the various characters were introduced. It's well paced, full of sympathetic and interesting people, and every historical detail is convincing. Hamilton feels very real as his personal story unfolds from a tough childhood to the start of a famous career. I'm eager to follow his story in the next novel about him.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
To Master Passions In Us All
By Frank Talaber
Juliet's writing pulled me right in. Her research is amazing and detailed, I thought I was there in the 1700's. The romance and how intricate it was to have one, let alone behave in public is wonderful. In addition it made me realize just how far civilization and human rights have come since then. It also made me realize why driven men like Hamilton did what they did to make the free country called America. Also the courage of Betsy to love and want a man like him, shows that women can be as driven as the men are. Excellent book, especially for anyone reading up on early American history.
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