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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Isenberg, Nancy

Paperback

Historical FiguresPolitical Biographies19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0143113712
ISBN13: 9780143113713
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: May 1 2008
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.08
Height: 1.14 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.45
Language: English
From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough

Lin-Manuel Miranda's play Hamilton has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. With Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyone's favorite founding villain. The Aaron Burr whom we meet through Isenberg's eye-opening biography is a feminist, an Enlightenment figure on par with Jefferson, a patriot, and--most importantly--a man with powerful enemies in an age of vitriolic political fighting. Revealing the gritty reality of eighteenth-century America, Fallen Founder is the authoritative restoration of a figure who ran afoul of history and a much-needed antidote to the hagiography of the revolutionary era.

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