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Similarly, both men hid a potent hedonism behind an intellectual facade. For all their outward differences, the two politicians stumbled into the two great sex scandals of the early Republic. In 1797 a journalist named James T. Callender exposed that Hamilton, while Treasury Secretary and a married man with four children, had entered into a yearlong affair with grifter Maria Reynolds, who was 23 when it began. In a 95page pamphlet, Hamilton confessed to the affair at what many regarded as inordinate length. He wished to show that the money he had paid to Reynolds' husband James had been...
...hid it pretty good, didn't I? You didn't know. I mean, he bankrupted us. He ruined us financially...
Clinton's theory is that he has always lived "parallel" lives. As a child, he hid the deep anger he felt over his stepfather's drunken violence behind a relentlessly sunny facade. He is brutal about his childhood failings. He describes himself as "fat, uncool and hardly popular with the girls." He writes that he "tended to make enemies effortlessly" and that he was so clumsy, he outgrew his fear of riding a bike without training wheels only as a college student at Oxford...
It’s been a long road for Peljto. In 1992, she hid in a basement shelter narrowly missed by artillery rounds. Days later, she and her family escaped the war in Bosnia in a car that kept running out of gas, making it through military check-points on a pre-dawn spring morning and eventually arriving in Slovenia, where Hana first learned basketball...
...years out of Harvard, Blumenfeld found himself worried over what he perceived as an increasing risk of nuclear annihilation. With the Cold War heating up and foreign tensions nearing their height, most people simply hid under their school desks or purchased fallout shelters. Blumenthal decided to take slightly more drastic measures...