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Argues that the roots of the fatal encounter between Hamilton and Burr lay not in Burr's political or private conduct, but in Hamilton's conflicted history and character
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Psychobiographer Rogow traces the famous 1804 duel to a basic dislike the two men had for each other: Hamilton for Burr because the orphan Burr came from a relatively privileged background while he was the unacknowledged illegitimate son of a Jamaican planter; Burr for Hamilton because he competed for political positions and the favors of married women in New York society. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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