![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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. The first novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history. ![]()
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