The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

It''s a story almost too tawdry to be true - a con woman prostitute who met the descendant of a Founding Father in a brothel, duped him into marriage using an infant purchased from a baby farm, then went to prison for stabbing the couple s baby nurse - all while in a common-law marriage with another man. The scandal surrounding Evangeline and Robert Ray Hamilton was one of the sensations of the Gilded Age, a sordid, gripping tale involving bigamy, bribery, sex, and violence. Here the story is told through personal correspondence, court records, and sensational newspaper accounts.

• | Author: Bill Shaffer
• | Publisher: Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.
• | Publication Date: Jul 26, 2022
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780806542256
• | ISBN-10: 080654225X