num_pages: 564
description: "An extraordinarily intelligent and entertaining novel!"NEWSWEEKBrilliantly realized, enormously readable, Gore Vidal's #1 best seller paints a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr, who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful of the founding fathers.A fictional memoir based on actual facts, BURR describes the early struggles and endless intrigues of the United States. Vidal writes with so much drama and vigor that history comes alive, and the concerns of a new nation read like today's headlines.
language: English
title: Burr
titlecomplete: Burr
characters: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton
genres: Fiction, Classics, Historical, American Revolution, Novels, Literature, American, Historical Fiction, Politics, American History
ratings_count: 9867
places: The United States of America
series: Narratives of Empire
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books