The Scandalous Hamiltons (1890s edition)
Landmark West
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Event Dates
Feb 07, 2023
When
6 pm - 7 pm

Long before Lin-Manuel, the 1890s public already had an insatiable appetite for all things Hamilton. By the era of Alexander Hamilton’s great-grandson, esteemed politician Robert Ray Hamilton, the name still signified political and financial power, privilege, money, and status. That is, until this privileged heir of one of America’s most prominent families found himself trapped into marriage to a dirt-poor prostitute who had produced a baby plucked from a "baby farm."
Bill Shaffer, author of the book The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, A Founding Father’s Disgraced Descendant and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism (Citadel), sets the tawdry tale amidst the sensationalist media landscape of The Gilded Age: thousands of newspapers in New York and nationwide hungry for the next screaming headline, the next lurid tale.