![]() 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. Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry ‘parvenu’ from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. Listen to 'Burr A Novel' by Gore Vidal available from Rakuten Kobo. 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 opens in 1833 and ends in 1840, four years after Aaron Burrs death at age eighty. 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. Burr is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional Founding Fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir by Aaron Burr, in representing the people, politics, and events of the U.S. ![]()
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