Rivals unto death : Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr /

Rivals unto death : Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr /

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Author / Creator:	Beyer, Rick, 1956- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Hachette Books, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xiv, 210 pages ; 19 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Burr, Aaron, -- 1756-1836. Hamilton, Alexander, -- 1757-1804. Burr, Aaron, -- 1756-1836. Hamilton, Alexander, -- 1757-1804. Burr-Hamilton Duel (Weehawken, New Jersey : 1804) Burr-Hamilton Duel, Weehawken, N.J., 1804. New Jersey -- Weehawken. Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11004743

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ISBN:	9780316504973 0316504971 9780316504966 0316504963
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index.
Summary:	"From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry. The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson that morning led to a confrontation that has burned bright in the American mind for more than two hundred years. When the most notorious duel in American history took place, Alexander Hamilton was 49, a former Treasury Secretary whose meteoric political rise had flamed out in the wake of a humiliating sex scandal. Vice President Aaron Burr, was just a year younger than Hamilton, at the top of a meteoric rise of his own in the nation's fledgling government. Rivals Unto Death explores the largely unknown three-decade dance that led to the infamous duel. It traces the rivalry back to the earliest days of the American Revolution, when both men, brilliant, restless, and barely twenty years old, elbowed their way onto the staff of General George Washington; follows them as they launch their competitive legal practices in New York City and through the insanity of the election of 1800 when Hamilton threw his support behind Thomas Jefferson in an effort to knock Burr out of the running for president; and takes them finally to the dueling grounds that only one would emerge from"--

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Summary:	From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry. <br> <br> The famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was the culmination of a story three decades in the making. Rivals unto Death vividly traces their rivalry back to the earliest days of the American Revolution, when Hamilton and Burr -- both brilliant, restless, and barely twenty years old -- elbowed their way onto the staff of General George Washington. The fast-moving account traces their intricate tug-of war, uncovering surprising details that led to their deadly encounter through battlefields, courtrooms, bedrooms, and the wildest presidential election in history, counting down the years to their fateful rendezvous on the dueling ground.<br> <br> This is politics made personal: shrill accusations, bruising collisions, and a parade of flesh and blood founders struggling--and often failing--to keep their tempers and jealousies in check. Smoldering in the background was a fundamental political divide that threatened to tear the new nation in two, and still persists to this day.<br> <br> The Burr and Hamilton that leap out of these pages are passionate, engaging, and utterly human characters inextricably linked together as Rivals unto Death.
Physical Description:	xiv, 210 pages ; 19 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index.
ISBN:	9780316504973 0316504971 9780316504966 0316504963