Burr (novel)
Cover of the first edition
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| Author | Gore Vidal |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Narratives of Empire |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Random House |
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1973 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 430 pp |
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| OCLC | 658914 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ3.V6668 Bu |
| Followed by | Lincoln (novel) |
Burr (1973), by Gore Vidal, is a historical novel that challenges the traditional founding-fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir, by Aaron Burr, in representing the people, politics, and events of the U.S. in the early nineteenth century.
In the careers of his life, Aaron Burr was the third Vice President of the United States (1801–05), an officer in the Continental Army during the American War of Independence (1775–83), a lawyer (1782), and a United States Senator from the State of New York (1791–97). In consequence to political and personal enmity, while he was Vice President, Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel on July 11, 1804. After public life, he was embroiled in the Burr Plot (1807), and was acquitted of treason against the United States; then, in Europe, he failed to obtain Napoleonic military aid to conquer Spanish Florida. In 1812, Burr returned to the United States and practiced law in New York City until his death in 1836.
Burr is the first book of the seven-novel series, Narratives of Empire, with which Gore Vidal examined, explored, and explained the imperial history of the United States; chronologically, the six other historical novels of the series are Lincoln (1984), 1876 (1976), Empire (1987), Hollywood (1990), Washington, D.C. (1967), and The Golden Age (2000).
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