Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
Nancy Isenberg
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 2007
- ISBN-13
- 9781101202364
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Aaron BurrAmerican founding fathersEarly American politics
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(2007)
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