Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton

A prize winning author paints a fascinating portrait of one of the 18th-century’s most colorful Sir William Hamilton. Hamilton represented the epitome of honorable public service. But he is remembered not as a scholar, diplomat, and connoisseur of culture, but for his part in the most scandalous menage a trois of the as the cuckolded husband of Emma Hamilton, mistress of the heroic Lord Nelson. For the first time, Hamilton’s unpublished notebooks are used to shed new light on the events.