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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Textbooks, Education | | | Author: | Gore Vidal | | Format: | Paperback | | | Publisher: | Vintage Books | | Edition Description: | Reprint | | | ISBN-10: | 0375708731 | | Educational Level: | -- | | | ISBN-13: | 9780375708732 | | Publication Year: | 2000 | | | Product Type: | -- | | Condition: | -- | | | Category: | History | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Product Category : Books ISBN : 0375708731 Title : Burr (American Chronicle) Authors : Gore Vidal Binding : Paperback Publisher : Vintage Books USA Publication Date : 2000-02 Pages : 448 List Price (MSRP) : 7.93 Height : 1.0300 inches Width : 5.2000 inches Length : 8.0800 inches Weight : 0.7300 pounds Keywords : Vidal, Gore, Historical, General, Literary Fiction Amazon Low Price : 0.25 Condition : Good , We post daily from Uk location, Wrapped in bubble and inserted in jiffy bag, All international items sent air; Please allow upto 15 days for delivery if outside of UK
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| Synopsis | Gore Vidal's 1973 novel in the guise of a memoir of Burr's life is told with plenty of gossipy detail. Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, an ambitious journalist, is writing an anonymous pamphlet to prove that Martin Van Buren (Jackson's vice-president) is the bastard son of Aaron Burr. Schuyler wants not to harm Burr, but to ruin Van Buren. (As Vidal famously said, "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.") Burr, thinking that Schuyler is writing a biography, gives him a memoir. The novel combines Schuyler's point of view with Burr's own memoir, and during the course of the double narrative, Schuyler discovers the truth about Van Buren--and about himself. Charlie Schuyler also appears in Vidal's novels LINCOLN and 1876.
| | Details | | Series: | The American Chronicle Series |
| | Size | | Length: | 430 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in. | | Width: | 5.3 in. | | Thickness: | 1.0 in. | | Weight: | 12.8 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. And he is determined to tell his own story. As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States.
| | Industry reviews | "When Aaron Burr appears as a hedonist, ...a gifted will-o-the-wisp who is (in his own eyes) his own best friend, he is a diverting creature. But Vidal-Burr, the personage who is writing an implausible apologia pro vita sua, and who pulls everybody down to somewhere below his own level, is not only mischievous, but often morose and usually redundant. The two live side by side, so that one is tempted to suggest that the novel is intended as the study of a split personality. As the last chapter convincingly demonstrates, however, it is far, far better when it is simply being a fantasy--a demonstration that comes to late to save the novel's reputation."
New York Times Book Review - George Dangerfield (10/28/1973)
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