![]() ![]() Veering backwards to the revolution and the early days of the republic, stopping at dinner-parties on the way, and reaching forward to the future, Burr is a novel about treason, both the particular and in general. ![]() American politics, suggests Vidal, had a penchant for the vulgar. See search resultsfor this author Gore Vidal(Author) 4.4 out of 5 stars698 ratings 4. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. Burr Audio Cassette Januby Gore Vidal (Author) Visit Amazon's Gore Vidal Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people, among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American history, debunks, in this historical novel of Burr's life, the common and casually held notion of the man as a scoundrel and an adventurer. He was an aide to General Washington during the Revolutionary War. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton. ![]()
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