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Aaron Burr; Portrait of an Ambitious Man

by Marie B. Hecht, Herbert S. Parmet. 399 pgs.

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Contributors:

Marie B. Hecht, Herbert S. Parmet

Publisher:

Macmillan

Place of Publication:

New York

Publication Year:

1967

Subjects:

Burr, Aaron,--1756-1836

Table of contents

	Illustrations	xi

I	THE BURRS AND THE EDWARDSES	1
II	UNCLE TIMOTHY'S WARD	12
III	THE STUDENT SOLDIER	17
IV	"THE MOST IMPORTANT REVOLUTION"	31
V	A MEMBER OF THE BAR	52
VI	A NEW YORK POLITICIAN	59
VII	DANGEROUS FACTIONALISM	68
VIII	THE SQUIRE OF RICHMOND HILL	87
IX	POLITICAL FRUSTRATIONS	96
X	THE ENTERPRISING AARON BURR	112
XI	OF FEVERS AND WATER PIPES	125
XII	JEFFERSON'S RUNNING MATE	144
XIII	MAN WITHOUT A PARTY	168
XIV	A MORNING AT WEEHAWKEN	194
XV	"THE MAN WHO KILLED HAMILTON"	216
XVI	WESTERN ADVENTURE: PART ONE	233
XVII	WESTERN ADVENTURE: PART TWO	253
XVIII	WESTERN ADVENTURE: PART THREE	266
XIX	TRIAL AT RICHMOND	285
XX	EUROPEAN INTERLUDE	305
XXI	THE VOYAGE OF THE PATRIOT	327
XXII	THE PRIVATE GENTLEMAN	332
	Notes	343
	Bibliography	377
	Index	389

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