Hamilton's Lady Banker

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Why did Alexander Hamilton die? This is the question in the background of the family of Hamilton's Lady Banker. Hamilton's Lady Banker is the story of Madame Jumel and her descendants. Based on the family documents and family lore of Madame Jumel, of New York, this novel steps back in time through her descendants and uncovers her close relationship with Alexander Hamilton and, along the way, reveals her plan to exact revenge on Aaron Burr with the use of her self-acquired wealth and the help of Alexander Hamilton Jr. The novel is based in fact with the use of the ghost of a child, Madame’s great niece at birth, to connect Madame Jumel with her 20th Century family and possibly reveal a family secret. The ghost of Madame appears as well, as the history of the Jumel Mansion reveals such sightings, real or imagined. The story evolves, along with the history of Madame Jumel's descendants, from the period just before the start of WWI through the end of WWII and into current day. It is steeped in the history of the 20th Century while it reaches back into the early days of the 19th Century and reveals, for the first time, the true reason behind Madame Jumel's marriage to Aaron Burr and why Hamilton died in that now infamous duel. Introduced by a first-person narrator, this story picks up at the turn of the last century and is intertwined with the story of a woman ahead of her time, in a world dominated by men, and of the legacy that she left behind. To this day, the twenty-year court case over her estate; which went to the Supreme Court of the United States, has painted a wrongful picture of a woman whose true history is just now coming to light as the revenger for Hamilton and the savior of the once slave, Solomon Northup and his family.