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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr Paperback - 2008

by Isenberg, Nancy

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Painting Aaron Burr as a hero of the Revolutionary War, the definitive biography overturns the myths and images many people have of him. 16 photos. 4 maps.

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Penguin Books, 2008. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
  • Author Isenberg, Nancy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008
  • Features Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0143113712I3N10
  • ISBN 9780143113713 / 0143113712
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.45 x 5.54 x 1.14 in (21.46 x 14.07 x 2.90 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
  • Library of Congress subjects Soldiers - United States, United States - History - Revolution,
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

A controversial challenge to the works of Ron Chernow and David McCullough

With Fallen Founder , Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyone?s favorite founding villain. The Aaron Burr whom we meet through Isenberg?s eye-opening biography is a feminist, an Enlightenment figure on par with Jefferson, a patriot, and?most importantly?a man with powerful enemies in an age of vitriolic political fighting. Revealing the gritty reality of eighteenth-century America, Fallen Founder is the authoritative restoration of a figure who ran afoul of history and a much-needed antidote to the hagiography of the revolutionary era.

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Media reviews

' Isenberg's meticulous biography reveals a gifted lawyer, politicianand orator who championed civility in government and evenfeminist ideals, in a political climate that bears a marked resemblanceto our own.'
The Washington Post

' Full of insight and new research. It is an important and engagingaccount.'
The New York Times Book Review

'[A] sterling biography.'
The Boston Globe

Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 05/25/2008, Page 20

About the author

Nancy Isenberg is the author of the New York Times bestseller White Trash: The 400-year untold history of class in America. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com. Isenberg is the winner of the 2016 Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was #4 on the 2016 Politico 50 list. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Charlottesville, Virginia.