CONTENTS

2. A House of Bad Fame

3. A Death in the Family

4. The Making of a Merchant

9. Bloomingdale

10. The Fortunes of War

11. Mount Stephen

12. France Beckons

13. An Imperial Interlude

15. The Collector

16. Separate Lives

17. Indecision

18. Place Vendôme

19. The Panic of 1825

20. All About Money

21. Deception

22. The Reunion

23. An Arranged Marriage

24. Enter Aaron Burr

25. A Calculated Courtship

26. An Optimistic Beginning

27. The Unraveling

28. The Duel

29. Financial Shenanigans

30. The Widow’s Mite

31. A Second Family

32. Madame Jumel

33. Eliza Burr Abroad

34. A Romantic Widow

35. The End of an Era

36. A Disputed Inheritance

37. Proliferating Pretenders

38. Enter George Washington

39. On the Home Front

40. Murder Most Foul?

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Sources

Image Credits

Index