Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents ix
• Acknowledgments xv
• Preface xvii
• Part One - Character and Circumstance 3
• 1 - Character 7
• 2 - Circumstance 21
• 3 - The Fatal Twins 33
• 4 - I Wish There Was a War 44
• 5 - Politics, Love, Learning, and Death 56
• 6 - Fascination 75
• Part Two - Character Tested by Slavery and Secession 87
• 7 - The Civil Rights Movement of the 1790s and the First Jim Crow Period 89
• 8 - Misdemeanors in Kentucky and Tennessee 111
• 9 - Filibustering as Policy, Glory, or Adventure 127
• 10 - Washington, Western Pennsylvania, and Secession 147
• 11 - Character, Economic Interest, and Foreign Policy 172
• Part Three - In the Wake of the Hurricane 183
• 12 - Clamor and Retreat 185
• 13 - Southern Hospitality 195
• 14 - Fort George 214
• Part Four - The Great Valley 231
• 15 - Burr and the Middle Ground 233
• 16 - "A Country of Slaves" 242
• Part Five - The Expedition 255
• 17 - Intentions, 1800-1805 257
• 18 - Whose Valley? 283
• 19 - Mr. Jefferson's Colleagues 292
• 20 - The Thinking Part of the People 305
• 21 - The Wheeled Cell and the Trial 333
• 22 - Precedents and Justice 347
• 23 - Groundsprings of Wrath 359
• Postscript 371
• Appendix - Biases and Apologies 389
• Notes 395
• Bibliography 435
• Index 453

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