This is Gore Vidal's historical fiction of Aaron Burr. A pretty good and interesting read, I just wondered throughout how much was real and the afterward kind of goes over that. An interesting life and interesting person. He really doesn't like Thomas Jefferson and sounds like the feelings were mutual. The book really brings out a division in the new USA of Virginians vs almost everyone else. The rest of the south sort of siding with Virginia while many others were against them. Interesting in that I hadn't heard this before--not sure if Vidal sort of made this up or if it was a real thing. Of course slavery would be part of this north south issue as well. This is a long read and at many times hard to fight through but was still good read with an interesting perspective on the time.
I had a day of jury duty on Jan 2nd and needed a paperback that I could easily carry or stuff in pocket and this is the one I chose. Wish at time I had picked something smaller/shorter in pages but now glad that I did read this book--it had been on my shelf for more than a few years.
It is an older paperback and I think there is 1 copy in system for this edition but probably more in other editions. I will not bother in putting on PBS, this one will go in my donate away pile.
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