Book summaryNew York Times political columnist William Safire offers an historical fiction about scoundrels, scandal, and the dawn of celebrity in late 18th century America. John Adams is president; Thomas Jefferson is vice president; and Alexander Hamilton is treasury secretary. At the epicenter of this federal triumvirate is the muckraking journalist James Thomson Callender, known by many in the capitol as "the scandalmonger" for his uncovering of the secret lives of politicians. Though loathed by modern historians for his attempts at ruining the careers of two of the greatest Americans of his day by revealing Jefferson's affair with Sally Hemings and Hamilton's relationship with Maria Reynolds, Safire here paints a tragic and pathetic portrait of a man ruled by his hunger for acceptance in an age of great men and noble statesmen. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Media reviews"Safire has great fun with all this and tells his story well." |
SCANDALMONGER: A Novelby Safire, William
Book desription: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000 First edition, third printing. 496 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-494). The scandalmonger of the title is James Thomson Callender, secretly on the payroll of Vice President Jefferson, who launches newspaper attacks on Hamilton for alleged financial corruption and on President John Adams. The ensuing embroglio in which the Federalists were instrumental in having Callender convicted and jailed, turned against them. Angered voters swept the Jeffersonians into power. Jefferson pardoned his partisan publicist, but did not favor him further. Callendar consequently revealed Jefferson's fathering of children with his slave, Sally Hemings. A masterful re-creation of the passionate controversies of an era that presages our own. NF condition in like dustjacket.. Hard Cover.
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