02-15-2024, 09:29 PM
epub | 3.31 MB | English | Isbn:9780307743282 | Author: H. W. Brands | Year: 2012
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Quote:[b][b][b]From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War[/b][/b]-a fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American history-a Revolutionary War hero, vice president of the United States, and the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.
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But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this biography, Burr was a man before his time-a proponent of equality between the sexes well over a century before women were able to vote in the US. Through Burr's extensive, witty correspondence with his daughter Theodosia, Brands traces the arc of a scandalous political career and the early years of American politics. The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr not only dramatizes through their words his eventful life, it also tells a touching story of a father's love for his exceptional daughter, which endured through public shame, bankruptcy, and exile, and outlasted even Theodosia's tragic disappearance at sea.