Who would be more fun to have a drink with?
Hamilton certainly had much more fun in public. With blue eyes and gentle features, he was widely described as “handsome” and “attractive to women.” At parties, he would tend to be the center of attention, though John Adams did remark on Hamilton’s “audacious and unblushing attempt upon ladies of the highest rank and purest virtue.” Madison’s public persona was quite different. One woman called him “a gloomy stiff creature,” and another, described him as “mute, cold, and repulsive”.
