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. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. 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. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. This novel starts from the point of view of Charles Schuyler, a young law clerk working in the law office of an aged Aaron Burr. with ISBN on the bottom right corner, photo credit on the bottom left corner, and no reviews. In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Pictures of the true first edition of Burr by Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton. 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.A novel about Aaron Burr, the character now perhaps best known for his part in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton - the Vice President of the United States who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Read more among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people, among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
The first novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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