The Tuesday Club: A Shorter Edition of The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club by Dr. Alexander Hamilton (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

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“Beside the point erudition, happy insult, and plain silliness… In parts it is remarkably funny, and filled with wonderful lampooning and absurd event. The crude illustrations, done with pen-and-wash, are full of jollity and life.”–Times Literary Supplement.

When in 1745 Dr. Alexander Hamilton (no relation to Washington’s treasury secretary) founded the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, he hoped to bring a part of the culture of his native Edinburgh to this “barbarous and desolate corner of the world.” For the next eleven years Hamilton scrupulously recorded the incessantly tumultuous meetings of a club whose only sacrosanct bylaw used to be that no serious question could be given a serious answer. The result used to be a voluminous account rich with colorful detail and brimming with good humor, literary parody, tongue-in-cheek cultural criticism, and pointed political satire.

First published in 1990 in a three-volume edition that won widespread critical acclaim, this remarkable literary and cultural document is now to be had in an abridged paperback version that retains the wit, flavor, and charm of the original. Students of early American history and literature in addition to general readers interested in the period will now find accessible one of British The us’s true literary achievements, a work that brings the golden age of the colonial Chesapeake wonderfully to life.

“Begin in the midst of the Book & read backwards, then forwards & skip about; I think now & then you’re going to find something a good way to set you aroaring.”–James Carroll, donating manuscript of “Record of the Tuesday Club” to a member of the Baltimore Library Company, May 4, 1824


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