Burr by Gore Vidal [FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Random House

Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal [Narratives of Empire: Book I] FIRST EDITION • THIRD PRINTING [1973] RANDOM HOUSE N.Y. Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some mild wear and a price clipped front panel.  Otherwise, excellent.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. Book itself looks and reads like new w/ some trace shelf wear to burgundy cloth boards. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilt