There's times you're surprised at the thoughts a book prompts. Take the new biography of Aaron Burr by H.W. Brands. I couldn't help but think about how technology may impact authors and readers of ...

If you know anything about Aaron Burr, it is probably only this: He killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But in a new book called “The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr,” the historian H.W. Brands ...

Aaron Burr was a divisive figure even before July 11, 1804, when he killed Alexander Hamilton in that infamous duel. He was intelligent, good-looking, courageous in battle -- annoying enough. But ...

But as Vidal himself points out in his foreword, there's a certain amount of imagination required when it comes to exploring the inner life of someone as implacable and mysterious as Aaron Burr ...

What readers are saying: “ I’ve read other books about Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, but this one, written from Mary Emmons’ perspective, was the most intriguing, informative and ...

TOKYO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Aaron Burr, a lawyer and politician in the early years of the United States, has long had a reputation as a villain, mainly due to his famous killing of political rival ...

Burr is a key figure in Pepperdine University professor Edward J. Larson’s “A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, American’s First Presidential Campaign,” a 2007 book ...

Aaron Burr, infamous for ... still have a story shot through with conflicts and question marks,” historian Buckner F. Melton Jr. wrote in his book, “Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason. ...

The name Aaron Burr instantly calls to mind one event: his duel with Alexander Hamilton, in which the latter, one of the darlings of American politics, was slain. But there ...

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Her second husband was former Vice President Aaron Burr. Margaret Oppenheimer talked about her book, [The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic].

The soldiers from Ft. Stoddert, Louisiana Territory, captured the fugitive Aaron Burr on a February morning in 1807, on a muddy road near the hamlet of Wakefield. Burr's fall from grace seemed ...