Identify the Main Point or Issue in the Following Passage,and

question 63

Short Answer

Identify the main point or issue in the following passage,and decide whether the rest of the passage offers reasons for the main point (such as,whether the passage contains an argument),whether it illustrates (provides examples for)the main point,whether it explains the point,is irrelevant to the point,and so on.
"Like me [Alexander Hamilton] usually read history or philosophy.In private,however (if I may be allowed to traduce his memory and expose him to all the world),Hamilton was a devoted reader of women's novels,as I discovered one day at the New York Society Library when I came upon a note in his hand asking the librarian to reserve for him Edward Mortimer (by a Lady)and The Amours of Count Palviano and Eleanora.I was shocked."
-Gore Vidal,Burr

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Definitions:

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A follower of Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions, founded by the prophet Zoroaster in ancient Iran.

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William James

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