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    Burr

    A Novel

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    Author Gore Vidal
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Feb 15, 2000 | 448 Pages | 9780375708732
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    Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years.  With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing and ironic observers.

    Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers.  In 1804, while serving as Vice President, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him.  In 1807, he was arrested, tried, ad acquitted of treason.  In 1933, Burr is newly married, and aging statesman considered a monster by many.  Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all.  And he is determined to tell his own story.  As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young Unites States.
    Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir. View titles by Gore Vidal
    "Dazzling. . . . Burr is wicked entertainment of a very high order."
    --The New York Times Book Review

    "A tragedy, a comedy, a vibrant, leg-kicking life. . . . All of this and much, much more is told in a highly engaging book that teems with bon mots, aphorisms and ironic comments on the political process. . . . Enlightening, fresh and fun."  --The Boston Globe

    "A novel of Stendhalian proportions. . . . It is probably impossible to be an American and not be fascinated and impressed by Vidal's telescoping of our early history. . . . Always absorbing." --The New Yorker

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    Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years.  With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing and ironic observers.

    Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers.  In 1804, while serving as Vice President, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him.  In 1807, he was arrested, tried, ad acquitted of treason.  In 1933, Burr is newly married, and aging statesman considered a monster by many.  Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all.  And he is determined to tell his own story.  As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young Unites States.

    Author

    Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir. View titles by Gore Vidal

    Praise

    "Dazzling. . . . Burr is wicked entertainment of a very high order."
    --The New York Times Book Review

    "A tragedy, a comedy, a vibrant, leg-kicking life. . . . All of this and much, much more is told in a highly engaging book that teems with bon mots, aphorisms and ironic comments on the political process. . . . Enlightening, fresh and fun."  --The Boston Globe

    "A novel of Stendhalian proportions. . . . It is probably impossible to be an American and not be fascinated and impressed by Vidal's telescoping of our early history. . . . Always absorbing." --The New Yorker

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