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Hamilton's Choice: A Gripping Novel of America's Foremost Founding Father Kindle Edition

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Alexander Hamilton’s family is falling apart.

His heir is dead; his daughter has gone insane with grief, and his loyal wife, Eliza, avoids him when he most needs her comfort. Tormented by the specter of a dreadful secret too shameful to bear, Hamilton is alone in his grief.

As Hamilton grapples with his troubled marriage and devastated family, his vicious political opponent, Aaron Burr, whips up a fierce and wholly unexpected storm that threatens to topple the nation. A nation Hamilton helped forge in blood, sweat, and tears.

Egomaniacal Burr is obsessed with power, and blames Hamilton for a humiliating political loss.
For Burr the only consolation will be Hamilton’s utter ruin.

It is a time of honor, duels, intrigues, and mindless political violence.

Torn between his duty to his wife and family and his steadfast allegiance to the country he fought to build, Hamilton must make a life or death choice.

You know his name, but this is a story that you haven't heard before! If you loved the score of Hamilton, the biographies of Chernow, and the novels of Stephanie Dray, you will love Hamilton's Choice!

"Fans of American history will love this fictionalization of Alexander Hamilton’s political and family life in the years leading to his death. Great for fans of Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, Joanne Freeman’s Affairs of Honor, Gore Vidal’s Burr"– Booklife Review

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “…a gem of an historical novel that is a treasure to savor…an imaginative narrative recounting a quintessential American tragedy…” –Goodreads reviewer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “…I read this compelling historical novel in a weekend. Jack Casey dives into the dimensions, lives and minds of Hamilton, Burr politically and personally… There is a richness and intimacy that Casey shares with the reader that allows one to become a part of the story… It is a perfect read and highly recommended.” –NetGalley reviewer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “…It is a terrific combination of political intrigue, human tragedy and murder mystery… The crisp and spirited dialogue makes it delightful to read about historical figures and their much too human foibles…” –Goodreads reviewer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I really enjoyed reading this book, it was what I was looking for in a historical novel about Hamilton. The story was really well done and I thoroughly enjoyed going on this fictional journey.” –NetGalley reviewer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “A highly enjoyable read. At once entertaining and informative, Hamilton's Choice is a triumphant combination of historical accuracy and narrative skill…” –Goodreads reviewer

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"Casey's gripping novel breathes new life into the later years of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton... Fans of the musical Hamilton will be familiar with the outline of Aaron Burr's rivalry with the young upstart, but Casey takes his time developing the details of Burr's political successes and failures... Casey seamlessly integrates political intrigues with daily life and gives Hamilton's wife, Eliza, a considerable role, showing how much marriage and family meant to them both.

After Eliza extracts a promise that her husband will retire from public life, powerful men, including her politician father, try to tempt his return... "Have you ever thought about my suffering?" she cries, both to her husband and, perhaps, to historians who have omitted women from their histories. Readers interested in Revolutionary War history and the politics of Jefferson's presidency will be enthralled by this portrayal of Hamilton and Burr's rivalry and the multitude of relationships surrounding and tugging at them.

Fans of American history will love this fictionalization of Alexander Hamilton's political and family life in the years leading to his death. Great for fans of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton, Joanne Freeman's Affairs of Honor, Gore Vidal's Burr" - Booklife Review

About the Author

JACK CASEY handled civil, criminal and constitutional matters for thirty years in his solo law practice. He counseled New York State legislators part-time and watched as ambitious politicians rose and fell. Casey now brings his insider's perspective to the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. In Hamilton's Choice, his fifth historical novel, Casey dramatizes the last three years of Hamilton's life, and he advances a new motive for Hamilton to accept Burr's challenge and attend the fatal duel. Casey graduated with honors from Yale University and Albany Law School, and has studied literature at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B082DJPXC4
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Diamonds Big as Radishes LLC (January 21, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 21, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2600 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 358 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1734366699

Best Sellers Rank: #496,631 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #317 in US Revolution & Founding History (Kindle Store)
- #536 in Historical Biographical Fiction
- #1,332 in Biographical Historical Fiction

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JACK CASEY has handled civil, criminal and constitutional cases in his solo law practice for the last thirty years. He also counseled New York State legislators, and watched as ambitious politicians rose and fell. Casey now brings his insider’s perspective to the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. In “Hamilton’s Choice,” his fifth historical novel, Casey dramatizes the last three years of Hamilton’s life, and advances a new motive for Hamilton to accept Burr’s challenge and attend the fatal duel.

Casey graduated with honors from Yale University and Albany Law School, and has studied literature at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities.

For further information, contact Diamonds Big as Radishes, LLC, (919) 210-6653.

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Jennifer Lara

Brings emotion and the human aspect to the historical story

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2021

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Hamilton’s Choice by Jack Casey is a story about the final years of Alexander Hamilton’s life. The book opens with Philip as he hears and reacts to George Eacker’s Fourth of July speech, in which Eacker trashes his father’s legacy and character. This leads to the duel which will end his life. His beloved son dead, his daughter, Angelica, has a breakdown due to the grief, and Eliza avoids him when he needs her the most. Tormented by a secret that he can’t bear to reveal, Hamilton is alone to shoulder his grief. Meanwhile, Aaron Burr, Hamilton's long time political opponent, begins a campaign that threatens to rip apart the nation that Hamilton and the other finding father so carefully crafted. Hamilton does what he can to ensure that power obsessed Burr does not win. When a mysterious note arrives, suggesting that Hamilton is behind his humiliating loss, Burr becomes determined to bring Hamilton to the same ruin. Torn between his duty and promise to his wife and children and his committed allegiance to the country he fought to build, Hamilton must make a life and death choice. In a time of honor, duel, and political games, we know how the story ends but how did it come to the duel that ends Hamilton’s life?
As a fan of Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical, Hamilton, and Ron Chernow’s biography which inspired it, I was intrigued and hesitant when I came across Hamilton’s Choice. Ultimately, I decided to give it a chance and I am so glad that I did. Jack Casey brings the interior struggle and emotion of Hamilton to life more than the musical and biography does. Hamilton was torn between two loves, two desires and ultimately couldn’t find a way to satisfy both. I enjoyed seeing the egomaniacal Burr desperately try to take his place in the political power machine of his day and ultimately his place in history. He finds himself without friends and more enemies. Although, he never counted on being remembered as the “villain of our history.” The story also brings to life the pieces that moved in this careful game that Burr and Hamilton played as they moved closer and closer to that fateful day in July 1804. I also enjoyed seeing Eliza’s observations and her own internal struggle with her grief and Hamilton’s unwillingness to settle into a comfortable and quiet life. It is an excellent and moving story that brings Hamilton’s final years to life. Even though I have the eBook of this book, I want a paperback for my permanent library. I highly recommend Hamilton’s Choice.

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The Journalist

Wish it could have been a FIVE-STAR

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2021

I came soooo close to shutting the pages of this book after the first several paragraphs and not reading on. However, I’m very glad I read on. Casey is a master of character and knows how to handle pace and tension exceedingly well.

The story begins with two adolescent youths testing the waters of adulthood and one of them is Philip Hamilton, son to Alexander Hamilton. Young Philip finds himself swept into deep waters when trying to defend his father’s honor. After that, there’s a tumult of family drama, as Alexander Hamilton finds himself running damage control, all the while suffering guilt over his son.

Enter the loathsome Aaron Burr, who’s constantly in debt, drunk, or in a house of ill repute. Casey weaves a well-crafted web of intrigue into Burr’s story, explaining the reasons held a grudge against Hamilton from the get-go. And Casey knows this history like he knows the back of his hand. I applaud him for that, as the story line was most convincing, and Casey’s portrayal of some of our founding fathers is gritty and not as clean-cut as some of us might surmise.

That brings me to the two reasons I couldn’t award this book five-stars, because in a lot of ways, it deserved them.

The first was that I felt Casey left some of us, who aren’t as savvy in the late 18th and early 19th century American landscape, wandering and trying to get our heads around the code duello. Everyone knows that it was based on honor, but I felt as though there needed to be some explanation on why men’s minds were so concrete in that way of thinking. Whether it was birth instinct, upbringing, military service, or culture of the day—the reader needed to know more about WHY men thought the way they did and the rules behind the guns. The fact that “delope” was considered unacceptable in “Irish dueling” (and I had to look that up)—well, what other types of dueling were there? This part of the world-building was lacking, in my view. Despite the domestic and political issues circulating around Hamilton, Eliza, and their closest extended family by the end, it was still hard for me to understand why a few obscure comments in a ruined man’s letters could send Hamilton to his untimely end, when he had seven kids and would send his brood into destitution by leaving them. In fact, I’d sympathized with him up until that time. A clearer fore-knowledge of what the mindset of dueling entailed might have made me understand better why he chose that path.

Second, and the reason I almost shut the book at the beginning, was the bizarre choice of narration. Casey used third person PRESENT, making the book read more like a screenplay or drama script. I found it jarring and by the end of the book, when both antagonist and protagonist are counting their steps on the beach with guns in hand, there was a lot of head-jumping, which forced me to re-read in places, to be sure it was who I thought it was speaking or thinking. As an author myself, I just don’t see the sense in making a reader work that hard, since this wasn’t literary fiction.

Overall, Hamilton’s Choice was well worth the time and effort in exploring more about politics and the final few years in the life of an American patriot. I enjoyed Casey’s admirable character-building, and his use of tension between them in nearly every scene was excellent—particularly between Hamilton and Eliza.

Four very well-deserved stars, and I’m frustrated that I can’t give it five.

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Fiction enhancing facts

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2021

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As a fan of biographies, I find myself looking to historical fiction to fill in some of the details, even if the details are from an author's imagination. Jack Casey's novel blends imagination with fact in a way that brings the characters to life. His imagining of Hamilton's private conversations provides insight into one of history's most baffling decisions. And Casey's depiction of Burr is particularly loathsome, which is most satisfying. What is not satisfying, of course, is the outcome, but this novel enhances an understanding of events and is not designed to change them.

I do have one minor quibble. Mr. Casey pays attention to detail in many wonderful ways. His descriptions of clothing and accessories, an outdoor party at Hamilton Grange, and examples of Burr's despicable behavior - are delicious. Yet, he twice describes Hamilton's "golden hair." Hamilton was a ginger. So I remind myself that Mr. Casey's book is, after all, a work of fiction. And a mighty fine one at that.

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Norma

Gripping tale

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2023

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Eloquent historical fiction presenting a new perspective on Hamilton which seems to present a more balanced view of the man, his frailties and accomplishments. A great read.

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Douglas Robert Yarnold

A masterful piece of writing!

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2021

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David McCullough, one of the great American authors, once said to a roomful of students, and I paraphrase, "To teach history, you need only 'Tell a Story'." Well, Jack Casey, in this novel, has told a story with such eloquence, and reverence for the subject matter, that I approached the end of the book with a degree of apprehension, knowing that it was going to end. My favorite genre in reading, is the historical novel. I have read many, but few have affected me as much as this one. Casey has outdone himself, with this masterful book!

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Mr Timothy J Greenwood

Excellent Historical Novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2021

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Jack Casey's heart and soul is in the history of New York State. On reading the book you'll soon realise this. From the very first chapter the reader is captivated by the celebratory fireworks, the "fake news" being bellowed out to the crowd by Eacker (main source of the tragedy) and the colourful Hercules Mulligan who steers the young Hamilton and his friend away from the mob. It is great introduction to the tragedy that is to unfold. Jack Casey has a wonderfully imaginative style of writing which is also informative and descriptive. I strongly recommend this book. You won't be disappointed.

L. D. Greene

Hamilton's choice

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2021

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I enjoyed this book and the stories of different people who are all part of the Hamilton story. Would have liked a bit more about Eliza and how she felt about his final choice.

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