Fallen founder : the life of Aaron Burr / Nancy Isenberg.
Isenberg, Nancy.
2007
E302.6.B9 I84 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Fallen founder : the life of Aaron Burr / Nancy Isenberg.
Author Isenberg, Nancy.
ISBN 9780670063529
0670063525
Publication Details New York, N.Y. : Viking, c2007.
Language English
Description xiii, 540 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number E302.6.B9 I84 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.4/6092 B
Summary This biography of the Revolutionary-era "villain" overturns every myth and image we have of him. The narrative of America's founding is filled with godlike geniuses--and then there was Aaron Burr. Generations have been told Burr was a betrayer--of Hamilton, of his country, of those with nobler ideas. All untrue: the politically aggressive Hamilton was preoccupied with Burr and subverted Burr's career at every turn for more than a decade. Historian Isenberg proves that Burr was no less a patriot and no less a principled thinker than those who debased him. He was an inspired politician who promoted decency when factionalism and ugly party politics were coalescing. He was as much an Enlightenment figure as Jefferson, and a feminist generations ahead of his time. A brilliant orator and lawyer, he was New York's attorney general, a senator, and vice president. His political assassination was accomplished by rivals who feared his power.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-521) and index.
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A man of promising parts
To concert with my brother officers
Such are the letters I love
An unprejudiced mind
A certain little senator
The statesman and the soldier
The ruin of the vice president
Little quid emperor
Will O' Wisp treason
That stranger was Aaron Burr
Epilogue: He used no unnecessary words.

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