Description
Author Gore Vidal
Publisher Random House (New York, 1973)
Format hardcover, protected in Brodart
Condition "Near fine hardcover in original dust jacket, now protected in a Brodart archival sleeve. Tight binding, clean pages, minimal shelf wear. A well-preserved collectible copy."
Description
In Burr: A Novel, acclaimed author Gore Vidal reimagines early American history through the eyes of one of its most controversial figures—Aaron Burr. With elegant prose and razor-sharp wit, Vidal crafts a rich, satirical, and historically grounded narrative that challenges the conventional Founding Father mythology. Told through the fictional memoir of Burr’s law clerk, Charles Schuyler, the novel intertwines fact and invention to reveal a complex portrait of a man vilified by history.
Set in the 1830s, Burr looks back on his tumultuous life: his military feats, his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton, and his enigmatic political alliances. Vidal spares no one—portraying Jefferson as a hypocrite, Washington as a stiff figurehead, and Hamilton as overly ambitious. Yet Burr himself emerges as charismatic, cunning, and strangely sympathetic.
This first edition hardcover, published by Random House in 1973, is protected with a Brodart cover and presents in collectible, like-new condition. A must-have for readers of historical fiction and lovers of political intrigue, Burr is the bold beginning to Vidal’s celebrated “Narratives of Empire” series.
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