Franklin Library: SIGNED 60: AARON BURR: DUEL WITH HAMILTON: VICE PRES:JEFFERSON

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Gore Vidal's "Burr," a Limited edition, one of the SIGNED 60 series, Portrait of Burr by Chris Duke, Personally signed by GORE VIDAL, published in 1979. Bound in green leather, the book has moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, gold gilt on three edges----in near FINE condition. Aaron Burr Jr., who lived from 1756 – 1836, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the U.S.,1801 to 1805. Although Burr stood only 5 6" tall, he was handsome, slender, very muscular, with dark hair, black eyes, broad shoulders and a thick hairy chest. Women were drawn to his magnetic power often to their sorrow. Burr was a complex man who made many friends, but he also made many enemies and he was at odds with many of the founding fathers, including Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton. Burr was a notorious womanizer and once claimed that "sexual release is my only remedy for my restlessness and irritability." In Europe he kept a record of prostitutes that he visited and liked. Burr's legacy is defined by his famous personal conflict with ALEXANDER HAMILTON that culminated in Burr killing Hamilton in a famous duel in 1804, while he was vice president. Burr was born to a prominent family in New Jersey in 1756. After studying theology at Princeton, he began his career as a lawyer before joining the Continental Army as an officer in the American Revolutionary War in 1775. After leaving military service in 1779, Burr practiced law in New York City, where he became a leading politician and helped form the new Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party. As a New York Assemblyman in 1785, Burr supported a bill to end slavery, despite having owned slaves himself. At age 26, Burr married THEODOSIA BARTOW PREVOST, who died in 1794 after twelve years of marriage. They had one daughter, Theodosia Burr Alston. Burr also had a relationship with his South Asian servant Mary Emmons, with whom he fathered two children, one a son, the abolitionist John Pierre Burr, though he never publicly acknowledged this relationship. In 1791, Burr was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until 1797. Burr would later run as the Democratic-Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 1800 election. An unintentional electoral college tie between Burr and presidential candidate THOMAS JEFFERSON resulted in the House of Representatives voting in Jefferson's favor, with Burr becoming Jefferson's vice president due to receiving the second-highest share of the votes. Although Burr maintained that he supported Jefferson, the president was highly suspicious of Burr, who was relegated to the sidelines of the administration during his vice presidency and not re-nominated as Jefferson's running mate in 1804. During his last year as vice president, Burr engaged in the duel in which he fatally shot Hamilton, his political rival, near where Hamilton's son Philip Hamilton died three years prior. Although dueling was illegal, Burr was never tried, and all charges against him were eventually dropped. Nevertheless, Hamilton's death ended Burr's political career. Burr traveled west to the American frontier, seeking new economic and political opportunities. His secretive activities led to his 1807 arrest in Alabama on charges of treason. He was brought to trial more than once for what became known as the Burr conspiracy, an alleged plot to create an independent country led by Burr; he was acquitted each time. With large debts and few influential friends, Burr left the United States and lived as an expatriate in Europe. He returned in 1812 and resumed practicing law in New York City. Burr's brief second marriage to wealthy Madame Eliza Jumel---recent widow of the wine merchant Stephen Jumel--- resulted in divorce and further scandal. Burr knew all the "shakers and movers" of his age including George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, John Marshall, John Randolph, James Wilkinson, David Crockett, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, William Henry Harrison, Gouverneur Morris, Martin Van Buren, John Jacob Astor, James and Dolley Madison, and James Monroe. Handicapped by a stroke and financially ruined, Burr died at a boarding house in 1836. 524 pages. I offer combined shipping.

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