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flat5 · 02-13-2006, 04:37 AM

Frankly, I wish Cheney was shot.

Gore Vidal wrote a book on Burr that I really enjoyed.
http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/16243

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A hero of the American Revolution, Aaron Burr (1756-1836) served as vice president under Thomas Jefferson, took the life of Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, and was later tried for treason when Jefferson accused him of plotting to make an empire of his own in the western territories.

Told partly by Aaron Burr at the end of his long life and partly by a young journalist in whom Burr confides, this brilliantly imagined memoir, based on fact, is an enormously engaging work of fiction that treats the political intrigues of the new United States as if they were today's headlines.
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I have no idea how accurate it is.

02-13-2006, 04:37 AM	#40 (permalink)
flat5 Very Insignificant Pawn Location: Amsterdam, NL	Frankly, I wish Cheney was shot. Gore Vidal wrote a book on Burr that I really enjoyed. http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/16243 --- A hero of the American Revolution, Aaron Burr (1756-1836) served as vice president under Thomas Jefferson, took the life of Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, and was later tried for treason when Jefferson accused him of plotting to make an empire of his own in the western territories. Told partly by Aaron Burr at the end of his long life and partly by a young journalist in whom Burr confides, this brilliantly imagined memoir, based on fact, is an enormously engaging work of fiction that treats the political intrigues of the new United States as if they were today's headlines. --- I have no idea how accurate it is.