Burr
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0345339215 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, May 1986
The contemporary novelist uses a fictional memoir to illuminate Aaron Burr's life and times
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"An extraordinarily intelligent and entertaining novel!"NEWSWEEKBrilliantly realized, enormously readable, Gore Vidal's #1 best seller paints a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr, who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful of the founding fathers.A fictional memoir based on actual facts, BURR describes the early struggles and endless intrigues of the United States. Vidal writes with so much drama and vigor that history comes alive, and the concerns of a new nation read like today's headlines.
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