American emperor : Aaron Burr’s challenge to Jefferson’s America / David O. Stewart.

Stewart, David O.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Added to CLICnet on 06/12/2014

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-387) and index.
The dark star of the founding — Do not play the fool with his name — The duel — On the frontier — The restless west — Vice President Burr — I … shall seek another country — The adventure begins — Early doubts — On the world stage — Burr’s threats — The baron of the Ouachita Valley — The western world ignites — High water mark — Dancing on the Sabine — The Daveiss factor — Escape from Blennerhassett Island — Wilkinson unchained — Burr in chains — When cousins collide — What is treason? — Sympathy for villainy — A mammoth of iniquity — Searching for an overt act — A drawn battle — To Britain — On the continent — The history of thy crimes — The cipher letter — Indictment, United States v. Aaron Burr — United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3 (treason clause).
In this biography, the author portrays Aaron Burr, the third vice president, and would be secession leader, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decade. It traces his career discussing his acrimonious relationship with Thomas Jefferson his ambitious vision of expansion and his historical, self-defended trial for treason. This account of Burr’s tumultuous life also offers a rare and eye opening description of the brand new nation struggling to define itself.

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Requested by Lansing, M.

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