Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron BurrPenguin, 2007 - 540 páginas This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him The narrative of America’s founding is filled with godlike geniuses—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson—versus the villainous Aaron Burr. Generations have been told Burr was a betrayer—of Hamilton, of his country, of those who had nobler ideas. All untrue. He did not turn on Hamilton; rather, the politically aggressive Hamilton was preoccupied with Burr and subverted Burr’s career at every turn for more than a decade through outright lies and slanderous letters. In Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg portrays the founders as they all really were and proves that Burr was no less a patriot and no less a principled thinker than those who debased him. He was an inspired politician who promoted decency at a moment when factionalism and ugly party politics were coalescing. He was a genuine hero of the Revolution, as much an Enlightenment figure as Jefferson, and a feminist generations ahead of his time. A brilliant orator and lawyer, he was New York’s attorney general, a senator, and vice president. Denounced as a man of extreme tastes, he in fact pursued a moderate course, and his political assassination was accomplished by rivals who feared his power and who promoted the notion of his sexual perversions. Fallen Founderis an antidote to the worshipful biographies far too prevalent in the histories of the revolutionary era. Burr’s story returns us to reality: to the cunning politicians our nation’s founders really were and to a world of political maneuvering, cutthroat politicking, and media slander that is stunningly modern. |
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One A MAN OF PROMISING PARTS | 1 |
Two TO CONCERT WITH MY BROTHER OFFICERS | 19 |
Three SUCH ARE THE LETTERS I LOVE | 55 |
Four AN UNPREJUDICED MIND | 85 |
Five A CERTAIN LITTLE SENATOR | 129 |
Six THE STATESMAN AND THE SOLDIER | 177 |
Seven THE RUIN OF THE VICE PRESIDENT | 223 |
Eight LITTLE QUID EMPEROR | 271 |
Nine WILL O WISP TREASON | 319 |
Ten THAT STRANGER WAS AARON BURR | 367 |
HE USED NO UNNECESSARY WORDS | 405 |
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The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving Andrew Burstein Vista previa limitada - 2008 |