"There seems little question that she approached Hamilton as part of an extortion racket, delivering an adept performance as a despairing woman" at her husband's behest, Ron Chernow concludes in his biography Alexander Hamilton. (This is all dramatized pretty faithfully in " Say No to This.") According to Hamilton's later account, she said her husband was treating her "cruelly" and asked him for money. In the summer of 1791, Alexander Hamilton - a little less than two years into his tenure as the United States' first-ever Treasury Secretary - was approached by the 23-year old Maria Reynolds, who asked him for help. The background: There's nothing like summer in the city Here's what they are (and here are the songs from Hamilton you can play to follow along): But there are several pieces of historical context left out of the musical that make his decision at least a bit less inexplicable. So why did he do it? Well, Hamilton's decision to publish the pamphlet was indeed a bizarre move and probably a mistake. Furthermore, it's a mistake that seems to be self-inflicted - no one forces him to publish it. "Well, he's never gon' be president now," Hamilton's political rivals mockingly sing, as they throw copies of the pamphlet in his face. In his telling, this is a disastrous mistake that humiliates Hamilton's family and ends his political career. It's a key turning point in Miranda's musical. Muñoz is referring, of course, to Alexander Hamilton's mid-1797 decision to publish an excruciatingly detailed, rambling confession of his extramarital affair with the married Maria Reynolds - a confession that became known as the Reynolds pamphlet, and which may have been the first national sex scandal in U.S. "Dude," he told Vulture in November, "WHY the Reynolds Pamphlet? What were you thinking? What were you thinking?"
But there's one burning question he still has about his character's motivations. history.While the Reynolds Pamphlet successfully refuted the more serious accusations against Hamilton, the sordid revelations of his affair humiliated his wife and permanently ended any hope he might have had of becoming president of the United States.Every Sunday, Javier Muñoz takes to Broadway to portray the titular character in Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash-hit musical Hamilton. Why it was so scandalous: "Complete with illicit meetings, payments of “hush money” and allegations of corruption, the Reynolds Affair had all the trappings of a modern-day political sex scandal, and was all the more shocking for being the first such drama in U.S.
That spring, Reynolds repeatedly asked Hamilton for smaller amounts in “loans,” until finally Hamilton stopped seeing Maria for good in the summer of 1792." He even encouraged Hamilton to resume the affair with his wife.
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Hamilton paid the full amount in two installments by January 1792, but Reynolds stayed in Philadelphia despite his promise to leave town. began a sexual relationship, meeting often at Hamilton’s own home after his devoted wife, Eliza, took their children to visit her father in Albany.James Reynolds confronted Hamilton via letter and demanded $1,000 (the equivalent of nearly $25,000 today) to keep quiet about the affair. Maria said she was destitute, and asked for money to help her get to friends in New York. The 23-year-old blonde presented herself as a damsel in distress, telling the treasury secretary that her abusive husband, James Reynolds, had left her and their young daughter to run off with another woman. What happened: "Maria Reynolds came to family home in Philadelphia in the summer of 1791, and asked to speak to him in private.
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