With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters, these novels present a panorama of American politics and imperialism, as interpreted by one of our most incisive and ironic observers. Together, they explore both Burr's past-and the continuing civic drama of their young nation.īurr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series, which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. Gore Vidal, The Essential Gore Vidal 63 likes Like I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. From Aaron Burrs journal: Thomas Jefferson had the fortunate gift of believing implicitly anything he himself said. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated-and misunderstood-figures among the Founding Fathers. For readers who can't get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal's stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel-and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation.
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