Rivals Unto Death
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
27 March 2017
Summary
The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson that morning led to a confrontation that has burned bright in the American mind for more than two hundred years.
When the most notorious duel in American history took place, Alexander Hamilton was 49, a former Treasury Secretary whose meteoric political rise had flamed out in the wake of a humiliating sex scandal. Vice President Aaron Burr, was just a year younger than Ha…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316504973 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316504971 |
| Author: | Rick Beyer |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Hachette Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 27 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 183mm x 148mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
“They were the best of enemies, two stalwart men of the national stage whose differences–personal and political–seemed to capture larger conflicts churning within our young republic. In this fascinating dual biography, Rick Beyer brings these two towering figures to vivid life on the page. In Beyer’s fine hands, the long feud between Burr and Hamilton seems part opera buffa, part Greek tragedy. As the pages keep turning, we feel ourselves pulled along a collision course–one that still has powerful resonance today.”–Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and In the Kingdom of ice
About The Author
Rick Beyer
Rick Beyer is the best-selling author of the Greatest Stories Never Told series as well as the co-author with Elizabeth Sayles of The Ghost Army of World War II. He has also produced history documentaries for PBS, The History Channel, A&E, National Geographic, and the Smithsonian, among other television networks.
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