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American emperor : Aaron Burr's challenge to Jefferson's America / David O. Stewart.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E330 .S84 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stewart, David O.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836.
- Burr, Aaron.
- Presidents--United States--Election--1800.
- Presidents.
- United States--Politics and government--1797-1801.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 410 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c2011.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Hagen fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781439157183
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