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. He is still very much an active participant in life, however. We meet him first in the 1830s approaching his final years. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. The treatment enhances the content, allowing Gore Vidal to lay several perspectives before the reader. by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir by Aaron Burr. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people, among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Burr is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional.

This text refers to the audioCD edition. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. by Gore Vidal Vidal is a master of his craft.

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. Gore Vidal (19252012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. 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. 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 United States.Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton. And he is determined to tell his own story. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. 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. Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical 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.

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. No writing in margins or on covers, no tears or folded pages.

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