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Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman

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Pendleton had begged him to reconsider. “At least practice,” the frustrated judge said the day before. They met at Pendleton’s office. The native Virginian pressed one of the pistols into Alexander’s hand. “Please. You need to know how it works.” “I know how it works, my dear Pendleton,” Alexander said. “It kills.”

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Eliza knew that some husbands cheated on their wives. “Cuckold” was the term for a husband betrayed, but for a woman betrayed there was no word other than “wife.”

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Alexander must persuade Congress to help urban factories get organized, even though Thomas Jefferson claimed they were the Devil’s actual workshop, as if Southern plantations were a moral paradise. Those who clenched the Bill of Rights most tightly often had a whip in the other hand.

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He had work to keep him busy. And enemies to keep him company.

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A duel was as formal as a Chinese wedding.

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Billy Lee was the only slave Alexander had ever seen who looked and acted nothing like one. Perhaps it was the effect of being trusted with a gun.

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You may not care about marriage now, Betsey, but you’ll change your mind someday. Someday you will. And if you’ve given no thought to how to choose a man you can live with, you’re going to end up with someone ugly and poor. Or worse, dull.

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