He was an inspired politician who promoted decency at a moment when factionalism and ugly party politics were coalescing. In Fallen Founder, Nancy Isenberg portrays the founders as they all really were and proves that Burr was no less a patriot and no less a principled thinker than those who debased him. He did not turn on Hamilton rather, the politically aggressive Hamilton was preoccupied with Burr and subverted Burr's career at every turn for more than a decade through outright lies and slanderous letters. Generations have been told Burr was a betrayer of Hamilton, of his country, of those who had nobler ideas. The narrative of America's founding is filled with godlike geniuses Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson versus the villainous Aaron Burr. This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him
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