Burr
The Man Who Shot Hamilton
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States.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. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people, among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu'…
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- ISBN: 978-0-349-10531-4
- EAN: 9780349105314
- Produktnummer: 17630087
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.0 cm x D3.2 cm 396 g
- Gewicht: 396
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Gore Vidal was at the centre of literary and intellectual life for half a century and wrote 'The Narratives of a Golden Age' series as well as countless bestsellers. He died on 31st July 2012.
97 weitere Werke von Gore Vidal:
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 - 1982
The Man Who Shot Hamilton
The Man Who Shot Hamilton
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