Nov 15, 2009

Burr | Burr

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Author: Gore Vidal
First Published: 1973
Type of Work: Novel
Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Politics, Nineteenth century, New York City, West, U.S., Washington, D.C., Biography, Duels or dueling, Treason
Locales: New York, NY, Washington, D.C.

Vidal's iconoclastic portrait of the American Founding Fathers in Burr would have shocked an earlier generation. In 1973, however, the United States had just emerged from the tumult of the Civil Rights movement and was still torn by controversy over the Vietnam War and by the Watergate scandal that would soon force President Richard Nixon to resign from office. As one reviewer of Burr pointed out, to the millions of Americans who believed that the ancient verities of the republic had become hollow, Vidal explained that they always had been. If many readers were surprised...

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Burr | Burr

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