Patriotism and Profit: Washington, Hamilton, Schuyler & the Rivalry for America's Capital City

George Washington, New York Senator Philip Schuyler, and Alexander Hamilton engaged in a decades-long rivalry and crusade for the location of the new empire city, leading to the creation of the United States. Susan Nagel's Patriotism & Profit reveals the origins behind some of America's most pressing problems.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 23 December 2021
Publisher: Pegasus Books

The untold story of how America's beloved first president, George Washington, borrowed, leveraged, and coerced his way into masterminding the key land purchase of the American era, which led to the creation of the nation's capital city.

Contrary to the popular historical record, Thomas Jefferson was not even a minor player at The Dinner Table Bargain, now known as The Compromise of 1790. The real protagonists of the Dinner Table Bargain were President George Washington and New York Senator Philip Schuyler, who engaged in the battle that would separate our financial capital from our political seat of power.

Washington and Schuylers dueling ambitions provoked an intense decades-long rivalry and a protracted crusade for the location of the new empire city. Alexander Hamilton, son-in-law to Schuyler and surrogate son to George Washington, was helplessly caught in the middle.

This invigorating narrative vividly depicts New York City when it was the nation's seat of government. Susan Nagel captures the spirit, speech, and sensibility of the era in full and entertaining form—and readers will get to know the city's eighteenth-century movers, shakers, and power brokers, who are as colorful and fascinating as their counterparts today.

Delicious political intrigue and scandalous gossip between the three competing alpha personalities—George Washington, Philip Schuyler, and Alexander Hamilton—make this a powerful and resonant history, reminding us that our Founding Fathers were brilliant but often flawed human beings.

They were avaricious, passionate, and visionary. They loved, hated, sacrificed, and aspired. Even their most vicious qualities are part of the reason why, for better or worse, the United States became the premier modern empire, born from figures carving their legacies into history.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 162 x 237 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781643137087