Burr in the saddle.(Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr)(Book review)

National Review | July 30, 2007| | Copyright

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, by Nancy Isenberg (Viking, 544 pp., $29.95)

HISTORIAN Nancy Isenberg's attempt, in this new book, to rehabilitate Aaron Burr brings to mind the fifth labor of Hercules: cleaning the Augean stables in a single day. So much filth has accumulated around him, over the ages, that clearing his name seems an impossible task. All the abuse flung at Burr by his political enemies--charges of sexual debauchery, overweening ambition, fiscal profligacy, and, ultimately, treason--still sticks to him like glue.

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