Just as one example of such threads: Eliza Hamilton Schuyler was the granddaughter of both Philip Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton. That is one of the reasons I was so keyed up to see the Schuyler family plot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery last week. It may seem like a marked digression from my previous endeavors but that would be less accurate than it might seem one of the major themes of my book manuscript, Incorporating New York, is that the Civil War generation was a bridge from the years of the Early Republic to the modern city and nation. I am already making a list of various interpretive possibilities. I won’t go too much into the details here and now but reading Flexner’s history of the first president will be part of some projects I have planned for 2019. This is James Thomas Flexner’s four-volume biography of George Washington, which the author published from the mid-1960s into the early-1970s. Late last week I received in the mail a package containing the books your see above. James Thomas Flexner’s four-volume biography of George Washington
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