Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age Brendan Buckley supporting each other through the

supporting each other through the ups and downs of life

but Newman weaves the analytical and the absurd with a raucous grace

making her the primary focus

of its missing piece

'His best book yet

Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age Brendan Buckley supporting each other through theAmerica's Founding Era reconsidered through the lives of two women as formidable as, and in some respects stronger than, the men they loved, married, and mothered. Angelica and Elizabeth Schuyler, born to wealth and privilege in New York's Hudson Valley during the latter half of the eighteenth century, were raised to make good marriages and supervise substantial households. Instead they became embroiled in the turmoil of America's insurrection against