Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason

South Carolina Historical Magazine | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason. By Buckner F. Melton, Jr. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001. Pp. 278; $27.95, cloth.)

Unlike Gore Vidal's Charlie Schuyler, privy to intimate conversations with Aaron Burr in the 1973 novel Burr, Buckner F. Melton, Jr. claims no real certainty about the former vice president's intentions or even the details surrounding the 1805-1806 conspiracy in the West that landed Burr in jail and on trial for high treason. "No one," he writes, "has been able to discover what this man really plotted," nor will anyone "ever know what Burr was really up to" (pp. ...

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