Pride and Pleasure
The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
by Amanda Vaill
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Amanda Vaill tells the story of Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, daughters of a wealthy Hudson Valley family, through the American Revolution and beyond. Angelica eloped with a war profiteer and moved among Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the Prince of Wales; Elizabeth married Alexander Hamilton and lived through the scandals that followed him. The sisters' story is told in the present tense, the Revolution in the past tense.
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