Fallen Founder The Life of Aaron Burr (Paperback)

From the Publisher: Challenges popular beliefs about the infamous Revolutionary era figure, revealing how a politically aggressive Alexander Hamilton subverted Burr's career through a slanderous letter-writing campaign, in a complimentary portrait that presents evidence of Burr's political talents and dedicated patriotism. Reprint.A controversial challenge to the works of Ron Chernow and David McCullough|| With Fallen Founder , Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyoneÂ's favorite founding villain. The Aaron Burr whom we meet through IsenbergÂ's eye-opening biography is a feminist, an Enlightenment figure on par with Jefferson, a patriot, andÂ?most importantlyÂ?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.