This work is the opening volume in the author's great fictional chronicle of American history. Hailed by The New Yorker as "a novel of Stendhalian proportions...", the book is told partly by Burr at theend of his long life and partly by a young journalist in whom Burr confides. A brilliantly imagined work, the novel treats the political intrigues of the new United States as if they were today's headlines. SIGNED BYTHE AUTHOR. 697p.
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This work is the opening volume in the author's great fictional chronicle of American history. Hailed by The New Yorker as "a novel of Stendhalian proportions...", the book is told partly by Burr at theend of his long life and partly by a young journalist in whom Burr confides. A brilliantly imagined work, the novel treats the political intrigues of the new United States as if they were today's headlines. SIGNED BYTHE AUTHOR. 697p.