The duel : the parallel lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr
(2016, original release: 2009)
Nonfiction
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Y/973.46/ST. GEORGE,J
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PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Speak, [2016]
©2009
©2009
DESCRIPTION
99 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780606388535, 0606388532 :, 9780425288214, 0425288218, 0606388532, 9780606388535
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: New York : Viking, 2009
In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college - one at Princeton, the other at Columbia - and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the newly formed government of the fledgling nation. Why, then, did these two face each other at dawn in a duel that ended with death for one and opprobrium for the other?
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