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A Fatal Friendship

A Fatal Friendship

Paperback

Presidents & Heads of State19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 0809016214
ISBN13: 9780809016211
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: Sep 1 1999
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.02
Language: English

A dramatic reinterpretation of the duel that shocked America.

For almost two centuries, historians have struggled to explain the extraordinary duel that killed Alexander Hamilton, our first Secretary of the Treasury, and ended Vice President Aaron Burr's political career. In A Fatal Friendship, the distinguished political scientist Arnold A. Rogow demonstrates for the first time that the roots of the fatal encounter lay not in Burr's (admittedly flawed) political or private conduct but rather in Hamilton's conflicted history and character.

With his detailed archival research, his close (and unprecedented) examination of the friendship between the two heroic figures, and his bold, imaginative writing, Rogow changes forever our understanding of honor, politics, and friendship in the early American Republic.

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