Volume 20, Number 18 · November 15, 1973
Discovering America
By Murray Kempton
Burr: A Novel
by Gore Vidal
Random House, 430 pp., $8.95
'Never did America witness a stranger union than when Jefferson, the representative of ideal purity, allied himself with Aaron Burr…in the expectation of fixing the United States in a career of simplicity and virtue,' Henry Adams tells us. 'And no more curious speculation could have been suggested to the politicians of 1800 than the question of whether New York would corrupt Virginia or Virginia would check the prosperity of New York.'[1]
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