Burr (novel)
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Burr: A Novel is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional Founding Fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir b
Cover of the first edition
Aaron Burr, the Third U.S. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802)
The Burr–Hamilton Duel occurred on July 11, 1804 Illustration after painting "Ein Ehrenhandel", 1888 by Joseph Munsch (Austrian, 1832-1896)
Gore Vidal
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving Ame
Burr (novel)
…Burr: A Novel is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional Founding Fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir by Aaron…
Vidal in 1948
Vidal at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 2008
Vidal's historical novel 1876 (1976)
Vidal (second from right) supporting the 1981 Writers Guild of America strike