American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America - Softcover

Stewart, David O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439157200 ISBN 13: 9781439157206

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2012

Synopsis

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decade.

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David O. Stewart portrays Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decade. Stewart’s vivid account of Burr’s tumultuous life offers a rare and eye-opening description of the brand-new nation struggling to define itself.

About this title

About the Author:

David O. Stewart is an award-winning author and the president of the Washington Independent Review of Books. He is the author of several acclaimed histories, including Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America; The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution; Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy; and American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America. Stewart’s first novel is The Lincoln Deception.

Review:

"A proven storyteller, David O. Stewart takes us on a wonderful journey back to a fascinating chapter of American life: the challenges and controversies embodied in Aaron Burr. "American Emperor" is a great tale."

--Jon Meacham, author of "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"

"Aaron Burr is the odd man out among the Founding Fathers, a vainglorious opportunist who looked down on Washington and Jefferson, killed Hamilton, and rarely missed a chance to advance his own political fortunes. By design, he left only a skimpy record of his life, but thanks to the patient scholarship and storytelling powers of David O. Stewart, we now have a luminous portrait of Aaron Burr as well as the first high-definition picture of an endlessly baffling, infuriating, and mesmerizing life."

--Patricia O'Toole, "When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House"

"The generation of the Founders produced some intriguing characters, but Aaron Burr has to be the most charismatic, quixotic, and mysterious. David Stewart brings the scheming, brilliant Burr to life in this lively but also judicious portrait of grand and unfulfilled ambition."

--Evan Thomas, author of "The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898"

Advance Praise for "AMERICAN EMPEROR"

"With remarkable evenhandedness and superb pacing, David O. Stewart has given us a real Aaron Burr and a real Thomas Jefferson in a gripping narrative about a political adventure that might have changed the history of the United States and Mexico."

--Thomas Fleming, author of "Duel: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton and the Future of America"

"A luminous portrait of Aaron Burr as well as the first high-definition picture of an endlessly baffling, infuriating, and mesmerizing life."

--Patricia O'Toole, "When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House"

"Aaron Burr is the American Lucifer, a figure of immense talents and heroic qualities whose voracious ambition thrust him into a position as adversary to the goodness around him. David Stewart captures this tale in all its drama, treachery, and historical dimension. This is a truly absorbing narrative."

--Robert W. Merry, author of "A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent"

Advance Praise for American Emperor

"A proven storyteller, David O. Stewart takes us on a wonderful journey back to a fascinating chapter of American life: the challenges and controversies embodied in Aaron Burr. "American Emperor" is a great tale."

--Jon Meacham, author of "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"

"With remarkable evenhandedness and superb pacing, David O. Stewart has given us a real Aaron Burr and a real Thomas Jefferson in a gripping narrative about a political adventure that might have changed the history of the United States and Mexico."

--Thomas Fleming, author of "Duel: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton and the Future of America"

""American Emperor" offers a compelling, provocative portrait of Aaron Burr....a skilled historian and a splendid storyteller, Stewart makes the most of the episode and its...cast of characters." --"Kansas City Star"

"Great men behaving badly makes for entertaining reading...[this book] will keep [readers] turning the pages of this meticulous, almost day-by-day account of a plot so bizarre that it's hard to believe it actually happened." -"Publishers Weekly"

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1439157200
• ISBN 13: 9781439157206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432