Two questions

1) How did I never know that Alexander Hamilton had an affair? I read *a ton* of history novels about that period of American history.

2) Steven Clemons argues:

I wish John Edwards had done what Alexander Hamilton had done in a similar situation -- as I wrote last October -- but not to be. Sad.

How is what Alexander Hamilton did any better? Hamilton confessed the affair to a couple of government insiders, who then told Thomas Jefferson, who leaked it to the press. A few years later, a member of the press confronted Hamilton with love letters to Maria, Hamilton finally admitted the affair and deny corruption. That sounds exactly like what John Edwards did.