Hardcover, 697 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 1998 by Modern Library.
Burr
by Gore Vidal
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Burr is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional Founding Fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir by Aaron Burr, in representing the people, politics, and events of the U.S. in the early 19th century. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1974. Burr is chronologically the first book of the seven-novel series Narratives of Empire, with which Vidal examined, explored, and explained the imperial history of the United States; chronologically, the six other historical novels of the series are Lincoln (1984), 1876 (1976), Empire (1987), Hollywood (1990), Washington, D.C. (1967), and The Golden Age (2000).
Subjects
- Biography: general
- Historical fiction
- Historical - General
- Vidal, Gore - Prose & Criticism
- Fiction - Historical
- American English
- Literature: Classics
- Vice-Presidents
- Burr, Aaron
- Fiction / General
- Burr, Aaron,
- Classics
- 1756-1836
- Biographical fiction
- Fiction
- United States