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Tempted with the promise of money, Schuyler considers authoring a pamphlet "proving" that Vice President Van Buren is Burr's son, which will end Van Buren's career. He becomes torn between honoring Burr, whom he admires, and betraying Burr for the cash that will enable him to take the woman he loves
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in his later, quieter years. The other gives us, by means of Burr's recollections as read and recorded by Schuyler, his experience of late eighteenth century British colonial life and the independence struggle or "Revolution" (in the section called 1833); and most substantially, his experience of
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The sections of the novel that deal with the narrator's activity in the 1830s (as opposed to Burr's reminiscences of his adventures in the American Revolution through his trial for treason) focus on the political life of New York City during the end of the administration of President
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Vidal notes in the novel's afterword that each character named therein "actually existed," with the exception of its narrator, Charlie Schuyler, and William de la Touche Clancey, a thinly veiled satire of longtime Vidal critic
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The novel comprises two storylines. One gives us Charles Schuyler's personal and professional perspectives on early mid-19th-century New York, and his coming to know the titular character
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praised the novel as "a clever book", noting the timeliness of its iconoclastic treatment of certain Founding Fathers "considering our mood of national discontent" amid the then-ongoing
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is the bastard son of Aaron Burr; the veracity or falsity of that allegation; and its usefulness in high-government politics. Because Van Buren is a strong candidate for the
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is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and bribed witnesses in support of a false charge of treason against Burr, to whom he almost lost in the
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life in post-Independence New York and his participation in the political development of the American Republic (through the main section of the novel, 1834), thus:
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The enmities were established when, despite Burr's initial victory in the voting, the presidential election of 1800 was a tied vote in the
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took issue with Vidal's heavy use of historical details, opining the novel "is far, far better when it is simply being a fantasy".
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to Europe. At story's end, Schuyler has learned more than he expected about Burr, Van Buren, and his own character.
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are historical: Thomas Jefferson was a slaver who fathered children with some of his slave women; the
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is the unsubstantiated claim that Alexander Hamilton gossiped about Burr and his daughter,
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of the United States; chronologically, the six other historical novels of the series are
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The contemporary story of political intrigue occurs from 1833 to 1840, in the time of
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Important to the intrigues of the plotters are the allegation that Vice President
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Chapter Eighteen: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Eight, and Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Nine
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Chapter Twelve: Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Three, and Memoirs of Aaron Burr — Four
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Matthew L. Davis - Editor, Tammany Hall insider, Burr's official biographer
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Aaron Burr, the Third U.S. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802)
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Mary Eliza Chase - Niece of (rumored to be daughter of) Eliza Jumel
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Charles Schuyler - Law clerk in Aaron Burr's law office, narrator
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is chronologically the first book of the seven-novel series
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Aaron Burr - New York City attorney, former Vice President
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The Burr–Hamilton Duel occurred on July 11, 1804 (J. Mund)
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Robert Wright - Philadelphia publisher of Davy Crockett
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Gore Vidal
Narratives of Empire
Historical novel
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Lincoln (novel)
historical novel
Gore Vidal
Founding Fathers
United States history
Aaron Burr
National Book Award
Narratives of Empire
imperial history
Lincoln
1876
Empire
Hollywood
Washington, D.C.
The Golden Age

anti-hero

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