Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary - Couverture souple

Wheelan, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0786716894 ISBN 13 : 9780786716890

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Wheelan Joseph

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Generations of Americans have known Thomas Jefferson as one of our unambiguously great presidents, a man of honor and optimism unencumbered by pettiness and spite; and so they have known Aaron Burr, his greatest adversary, as a traitorous would-be destroyer of that distinguished legacy. In Jefferson's Vendetta, Joseph Wheelan examines one of the eminent political rivalries in our history, set against the backdrop of postcolonial Virginia, and discovers a truth vastly different from what is taught in high schools and universities. Here is Burr, the flawed but gifted politician who made powerful enemies because his charm and skill rivaled Jefferson's own, and who trusted the fairness of American democracy too deeply to rebut the wild criticisms aimed at him by slanderers in the U.S. government. And here, in vivid detail, is Jefferson, whose obsessive crusade to destroy Burr was undone by one mammoth but historically overlooked miscalculation. Exquisitely researched and brilliantly written, Jefferson's Vendetta challenges the blackened legacy of Aaron Burr and shows the beloved President Jefferson mired in the kind of hateful and manipulative politics that tradition has depicted him as rising above.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Joseph Wheelan, a graduate of the University of Wyoming and University of Colorado, Denver, was for twenty-six years an editor and reporter for the Associated Press and the Casper Star-Tribune (Wyoming). Author of Jefferson's War, also available from Carroll & Graf, he lives in North Carolina with his wife, Pat.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0786716894
• ISBN 13: 9780786716890
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336