Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

by Nancy Isenberg
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

by Nancy Isenberg

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Overview

From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough

Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. With Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyone's favorite founding villain. The Aaron Burr whom we meet through Isenberg's eye-opening biography is a feminist, an Enlightenment figure on par with Jefferson, a patriot, and—most importantly—a man with powerful enemies in an age of vitriolic political fighting. Revealing the gritty reality of eighteenth-century America, Fallen Founder is the authoritative restoration of a figure who ran afoul of history and a much-needed antidote to the hagiography of the revolutionary era.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101202364
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/10/2007
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 560
Sales rank: 375,709
File size: 10 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Nancy Isenberg is the author of the New York Times bestseller White Trash: The 400-year untold history of class in America. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com. Isenberg is the winner of the 2016 Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was #4 on the 2016 Politico 50 list. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Charlottesville, Virginia.

Table of Contents


Preface     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
List of Illustrations     xvii
A Man of Promising Parts     1
To Concert with my Brother Officers     19
Such are the Letters I Love     55
An Unprejudiced Mind     85
A Certain Little Senator     129
The Statesman and the Soldier     177
The Ruin of the Vice President     223
Little Quid Emperor     271
Will O' Wisp Treason     319
That Stranger was Aaron Burr     367
Epilogue: He Used no Unnecessary Words     405
Notes     415
Index     523
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