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Master the Civil Service Exam

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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Author: Nancy Isenberg

This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him.

Washington Post

Isenberg's meticulous biography reveals a gifted lawyer, politician and orator who championed civility in government and even feminist ideals, in a political climate that bears a marked resemblance to our own.

Boston Globe

[A] sterling biography.

New York Times Book Review

Full of insight and new research. It is an important and engaging account.

The New York Times - Jill Lepore

Isenberg's call for a better, less fetishistic history of the founding fathers is eloquent and inspiring. And her study of Burr is full of insight and new research. It is an important and engaging account.

Publishers Weekly

Does Burr belong in the pantheon of founding fathers? Or is he, as historians have asserted ever since he fatally shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel, a faux founder who happened to be in the right place at the right time? Was he really the enigmatic villain, the political schemer who lacked any moral core, the sexual pervert, the cherubic-faced slanderer so beloved of popular imagination? This striking new biography by Isenberg (Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America) argues that Burr was, indeed, the real thing, a founder "at the center of nation building" and a "capable leader in New York political circles." Interestingly, if controversially, Isenberg believes Burr was "the only founder to embrace feminism," the only one who "adhered to the ideal that reason should transcend party differences." Far from being an empty vessel, she says, Burr defended freedom of speech, wanted to expand suffrage and was a proponent of equal rights. Burr was not without his faults, she concludes, but then, none of the other founders was entirely angelic, either, and his actions must be viewed in the context of his political times. As this important book reminds us, America's founders behaved like ordinary human beings even when they were performing their extraordinary deeds. Illus. (May 14)

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Table of Contents:

Preface     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
List of Illustrations     xvii
A Man of Promising Parts     1
To Concert with my Brother Officers     19
Such are the Letters I Love     55
An Unprejudiced Mind     85
A Certain Little Senator     129
The Statesman and the Soldier     177
The Ruin of the Vice President     223
Little Quid Emperor     271
Will O' Wisp Treason     319
That Stranger was Aaron Burr     367
Epilogue: He Used no Unnecessary Words     405
Notes     415
Index     523