I began listening to audiobooks in the late 1990s when i moved to the mountains, adopted two dogs, and took them on daily walks of several miles. 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.įinally! Vidal's Great Take on the Life of Burr
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.
In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. 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.
Urn:oclc:832316800 Scandate 20091111031157 Scanner listeners 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. OL97984W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.58 Pages 456 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0679602852 Urn:lcp:burrnovel00vida:epub:72f29b4d-82fc-4abd-998b-fbecd09b2be5 Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier burrnovel00vida Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8v98qg96 Isbn 0394480244Ģ4689753 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:42:27 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA106001 Boxid_2 CH120120908-BL1 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed.
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