New PDF release: The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr

By H.W. Brands

ISBN-10: 0307743268

ISBN-13: 9780307743268

Though he was once a hero of the progressive struggle, a renowned manhattan flesh presser, and vice chairman of the us, Aaron Burr is at the present time most sensible remembered because the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

But as H. W. manufacturers demonstrates during this attention-grabbing portrait of 1 of the main compelling politicians in American background, Burr used to be additionally a guy earlier than his time—a proponent of equality among the sexes good over a century earlier than ladies have been capable of vote within the US. via Burr's wide, witty correspondence along with his daughter Theodosia, manufacturers strains the arc of a scandalous political profession and the early years of yank politics. The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr not just dramatizes via their phrases his eventful existence, it additionally tells a touching tale of a father's love for his extraordinary daughter, which persevered via public disgrace, financial disaster, and exile, and outlasted even Theodosia's tragic disappearance at sea.

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The news travels from New York to Philadelphia as fast as swift horses can gallop. Jefferson, the Republican vice president and candidate for president, is accosted by Adams, the Federalist president and likewise candidate for president. “I understand that you are to beat me in this contest,” Adams grumbles to Jefferson, referring to the New York results and their consequences for the national contest. “Mr. Adams,” Jefferson responds, “this is no personal contest between you and me. Two systems of principles, on the subject of government, divide our fellow citizens into two parties.

Predispositions toward government emerge; around the predispositions, factions develop; the factions become parties. Jefferson and Madison head one party, the Republicans, which professes opposition to an energetic central government. Hamilton and John Adams head the other, the Federalists, which deems energy essential in government. George Washington attaches to neither party but leans Federalist. Jefferson’s Republicans see Burr as useful in probing the weakness of Hamilton’s Federalists in Hamilton’s home state.

Her intelligence and accomplishments don’t exempt her from the constraints of the common-law tradition that a woman’s legal existence derives from that of the most significant male in her life: her father, her husband, her eldest son. Theo is too independent-minded to remain the ward of her father, making marriage the only feasible alternative. Perhaps she reckons, as well, that her money-careless father cannot afford to support her forever and therefore that she should marry to lighten the debts that have become his constant companion.

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