Veering backwards to the revolution and the early days of the republic, stopping at dinner-parties on the way, and reaching forward to the future, Burr is a novel about treason, both the particular and in general. American politics, suggests Vidal, had a penchant for the vulgar. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people, among them Jefferson and Hamilton. 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. Burr: a novel (American chronicle (Gore Vidal) Volume 1) Cover. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. The contemporary novelist uses a fictional memoir to illuminate Aaron Burrs life and. In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Burr is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional Founding Fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative. With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters, these novels present a panorama of American politics and imperialism, as interpreted by one of our most incisive and ironic observers.Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton. Together, they explore both Burr's past-and the continuing civic drama of their young nation.īurr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series, which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. on Washington Irving, Aaron Burr, and the lost political and literary world of early New York City. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. Study Questions on Gore Vidals Novel Burr (1973.
In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. A fictional memoir illuminating Aaron Burrs life and times, highlighting his political accomplishments and fatal duel with Alexander Hamilton. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated-and misunderstood-figures among the Founding Fathers.
For readers who can't get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal's stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel-and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation.
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