Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Isenberg, Nancy

ISBN 10: 0670063525 / ISBN 13: 9780670063529

Published by Viking Adult (edition First Edition), 2007

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With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
• Publisher: Viking Adult (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670063525
• ISBN 13: 9780670063529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Challenges popular beliefs about the infamous Revolutionary era figure, revealing how a politically aggressive Alexander Hamilton subverted Burr's career through a slanderous letter-writing campaign, in a complimentary portrait that presents evidence of Burr's political talents and dedicated patriotism.

About the Author

Nancy Isenberg, a New Jersey native, is the Mary Frances Barnard Chair in 19th- Century American History at the University of Tulsa. She is the author of Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America, which was chosen as the “best book in the field of the early American Republic” for 1999 by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.