May 24, 2012
Humanizing Hamilton’s Killer: Henry W. Brands’ The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr has gone down in history as the American villain: the man who killed the beloved Alexander Hamilton in a petty duel, and cost the country one of its founding fathers. Henry W. Brands' The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr paints a picture of a softer and more sympathetic Burr, a devoted father and early feminist who, with an ill-fated bullet, became the man America loved to hate.
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