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Author : Roger G. Kennedy
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 559/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson by : Roger G. Kennedy
Download or read book Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson written by Roger G. Kennedy. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the personal qualities, political achievements, and life ambitions of Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson.
Author : Roger G. Kennedy
Release : 2000-09-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson by : Roger G. Kennedy
Download or read book Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson written by Roger G. Kennedy. This book was released on 2000-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American continent, than any other Founder except George Washington. He contested for power with Hamilton and then with Jefferson on a continental scale. The book does not sentimentalize any of its three protagonists, neither does it derogate their extraordinary qualities. They were all great men, all flawed, and all three failed to achieve their full aspirations. But their struggles make for an epic tale. Written from the perspective of a historian and administrator who, over nearly fifty years in public life, has served six presidents, this book penetrates into the personal qualities of its three central figures. In telling the tale of their shifting power relationships and their antipathies, it reassesses their policies and the consequences of their successes and failures. Fresh information about the careers of Hamilton and Burr is derived from newly-discovered sources, and a supporting cast of secondary figures emerges to give depth and irony to the principal narrative. This is a book for people who know how political life is lived, and who refuse to be confined within preconceptions and prejudices until they have weighed all the evidence, to reach their own conclusions both as to events and character. This is a controversial book, but not a confrontational one, for it is written with sympathy for men of high aspirations, who were disappointed in much, but who succeeded, in all three cases, to a degree not hitherto fully understood.
Author : Isaac Jenkinson
Release : 1902
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Book Synopsis Aaron Burr by : Isaac Jenkinson
Download or read book Aaron Burr written by Isaac Jenkinson. This book was released on 1902. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ferling
Release : 2014-10-07
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Jefferson and Hamilton by : John Ferling
Download or read book Jefferson and Hamilton written by John Ferling. This book was released on 2014-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's foremost historians brilliantly brings to life the fierce struggle - both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal - between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton - two rivals whose opposing visions of what the United States should be continue to shape our country to this day.
Author : Isaac Jenkinson
Release : 2017-11-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Aaron Burr by : Isaac Jenkinson
Download or read book Aaron Burr written by Isaac Jenkinson. This book was released on 2017-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Aaron Burr: His Personal and Political Relations With Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr has the saddest of all histories - the victim of revengeful power, and of studied and per sistent duplicity. A man whose public life was with out a stain, who never betrayed a friend, or spoke ill even of an enemy; a man of the highest ambition, but who put aside the presidency of the United States, rather than do a wrong to his party chief or disappoint the wishes of the people - has been for a whole century denounced as a man without integrity or sound principle. A man who gave four years of his early manhood in fighting for the maintenance of the republic - has, upon mere clamor and prejudice, for three generations, been stigmatized as a traitor. If these be facts, is it not time they were' known? It is to give these facts that this volume has been written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
