Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr - Hardcover

Isenberg, Nancy

 
9780670063529: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Synopsis

Challenges popular beliefs about the infamous Revolutionary era figure, revealing how a politically aggressive Alexander Hamilton subverted Burr's career through a slanderous letter-writing campaign, in a complimentary portrait that presents evidence of Burr's political talents and dedicated patriotism.

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About the Author

Nancy Isenberg, a New Jersey native, is the Mary Frances Barnard Chair in 19th- Century American History at the University of Tulsa. She is the author of Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America, which was chosen as the “best book in the field of the early American Republic” for 1999 by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

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9780143113713: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

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ISBN 10:  0143113712 ISBN 13:  9780143113713
Publisher: Penguin Books, 2008
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