"Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, ... [this book] tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet ending -- his at a dueling ground on the shores of the Hudson River, hers more than half a century later after a brave, successful life"--OCLC.