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and becomes deeply involved in New York State politics, and the national scene. Eventually, Burr becomes the nation’s third Vice President–to Jefferson–but there’s a problem. Jefferson does not wish to see Hamilton as the nation’s fourth President; instead, he prefers his friend and ...
The Secret Wife of Arron Burr Susan Halloway Scott I picked this up after seeing Hamilton and wanting to know more about Aaron Burr. I give this book a solid B-/C+, the story was interesting but MUCH too long and the entire thing finished before their dual. My main desire was to find...
Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander...
Billionaire Miss Z might be out of the picture, but a top-secret agency wants to send Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel on one final mission. This time, the Flashback Four are headed to Weehawken, New Jersey—in 1804—to videotape the fateful duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr....
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Stacker pick: "Burr" "Burr" is a historicalnovel in which a fictionalized Aaron Burr decides to create a memoir of the events surrounding the founding of the nation. He enlists the help of a young law clerk at his firm, and the story follows both the clerk’s thoughts on mid-19th cen...
(Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, “Hamilton: The Musical”) It is ironic that two men who had much in common ended up with such antipathy for each other. On the one hand Hamilton was particularly vocal about his disdain for Burr that seemed to originate in the election of 1792 and con...
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Another long-time enemy of Hamilton’s was Aaron Burr, who he believed was an unprincipled opportunist. He even sided with Jefferson when it came down to Jefferson vs. Burr for president. He believed Jefferson, though he disagreed with his politics, was more principled. This only stoked the ...