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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America
By Thomas Fleming
476 pages
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- Basic Books
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- New York
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- 1999
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Synopsis
In this remarkable retelling of the infamous duel, Fleming takes the reader into the post-revolutionary world of 1804, a chaotic and fragile time in the young country, as well as a time of tremendous global instability. 20 halftones.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- List of Illustrations xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Chapter 1 - A General Nurses His Wounds 1
- Chapter 2 - The Quarrelsome Men of Gotham 31
- Chapter 3 - The New Caesar's Long Shadow 53
- Chapter 4 - The Temptations of a Vice President 79
- Chapter 5 - Politicians in the Wilderness 103
- Chapter 6 - A Wary Candidate Tests the Waters 133
- Chapter 7 - From Migraine to Miracle 149
- Chapter 8 - Resist, Resist, Resist the Demagogues! 165
- Chapter 9 - Does Impeachment Justify Secession? 189
- Chapter 10 - Mudslingers Front and Center 205
- Chapter 11 - From the Low Road to the Depths 221
- Chapter 12 a Distracted Dictator and an Etiquette-Mad President 237
- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- List of Illustrations xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Chapter 1 - A General Nurses His Wounds 1
- Chapter 2 - The Quarrelsome Men of Gotham 31
- Chapter 3 - The New Caesar's Long Shadow 53
- Chapter 4 - The Temptations of a Vice President 79
- Chapter 5 - Politicians in the Wilderness 103
- Chapter 6 - A Wary Candidate Tests the Waters 133
- Chapter 7 - From Migraine to Miracle 149
- Chapter 8 - Resist, Resist, Resist the Demagogues! 165
- Chapter 9 - Does Impeachment Justify Secession? 189
- Chapter 10 - Mudslingers Front and Center 205
- Chapter 11 - From the Low Road to the Depths 221
- Chapter 12 a Distracted Dictator and an Etiquette-Mad President 237
- Chapter 13 - A Ruined Politician Has a Midnight Visitor 253
- Chapter 14 - Light in the Labyrinth 265
- Chapter 15 - Honor's Deadly Ritual 283
- Chapter 16 Why Soldiers Why? 301
- Chapter 17 - This is a Mortal Wound, Doctor 321
- Chapter 18 - Muffled Drums and Beckoning Destiny 333
- Afterward 355
- Notes 407
- Index 429