Burr

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• dnautics · Dec 24, 2020 · Recommends

  …terms of it's emotional content, say, compared to 90s west coast hip hop. (See also moana, the lyrics in that are very tell-not-show). For a more intelligent fictionalisation of that era, I recommend Burr, by Gore Vidal.

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• theballwatcher · Dec 26, 2012 · Recommends

  …read. It got me started on the whole historical fiction genre. The rest of the books in Clavell's Asian Saga are pretty good too except for maybe Gai-jin. I also enjoyed reading Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr from his Narratives of the Empire series - very entertaining and definitely not run-of-the-mill biographic portrayals.

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• billfruit · Oct 31, 2020 · Recommends

  …Ivanhoe -George Eliot's Romola -Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis -Bulwer Lytton's Last days of Pompeii -Evelyn Waugh's Helena -Anatole France's God's are athirst. -Tolstoy's War and Peace -Gore Vidal's Burr and also some of the others.

  on “Why Are We Living in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction? (2019)” ↗
• billfruit · Jul 16, 2023 · Recommends

  Isn't Chernow a bit too referential towards his subject? Gore Vidal for example has much more cynical view of George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton and Aaron Burr. I recommend Gore Vidal's "Burr", an account a lot of the early days of the US with Burr as the focal point.

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• billfruit · Jan 6, 2024 · Recommends

  I think they are just about middling historical fiction, compared to War and Peace or even Ivanhoe or Gore Vidal's novels about American History like Burr.

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• billfruit · Feb 24, 2023 · Recommends

  There is entertaining novel by Gore Vidal on his life, titled "Burr".

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• billfruit · Apr 19, 2018 · Critical

  Recently having read Gore Vidal's book 'Burr', Washington come out as a poor military leader, whose terrible military decisions prolonged the American Revolutionary War by years. In fact none of Washington, Jefferson or Hamilton come out as people…

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• billfruit · Apr 21, 2018 · Mentions

  Just having read Gore Vidal's 'Burr', I get the impression that Jefferson was acting against Burr(Writing to Congress that Burr was a traitor, before the trial had begun), with personal vendetta.The trial was almost a disaster for Jefferson…

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