Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

✍ Scribed by Isenberg, Nancy

• Book ID: 109070587
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780670063529

✦ Synopsis

A controversial challenge to the works of Ron Chernow and David McCullough
Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.