Association Member: ABAA ILAB IOBA Seller Rating: Contact seller Book First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: As New US 62.95 Convert currency US 6.50 Shipping Within U.S.A. Gore Vidal’s style is simple and captivating - even when telling the age old tale of a poor girl transformed into a star, only. His third novel, The City and the Pillar. Veering backwards to the revolution and the early days of the republic, stopping at dinner-parties on the way, and reaching forward to the future, Burr is a novel about treason, both the particular and in general. Vidal, Gore Published by Modern Library, 1998 ISBN 10: 0679602852 ISBN 13: 9780679602859 Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, U.S.A. Alongside his social, his best known historical include Julian, Burr, and Lincoln. American politics, suggests Vidal, had a penchant for the vulgar. The first novel in the chronology of Vidals epic Chronicles Of Empire, embodying the passage of American history.

Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people, among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American history, debunks, in this historical novel of Burr's life, the common and casually held notion of the man as a scoundrel and an adventurer. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidals Narratives of Empire series. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Franklin Library Gore Vidal books: Kalki - limited first edition (not signed). In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton.

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