Burr

Burr by Gore Vidal. Published by Random House Inc, NY, 1973. 1st Stated Edition. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 8vo. Condition: Fine in Torn & Taped DJ. ISBN 0394480244. LCCN 73-3985. Novel in the guise of a memoir of Burr's life is told with plenty of gossipy detail. Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, an ambitious journalist, is writing an anonymous pamphlet to prove that Martin Van Buren, Jackson's vice-president, is the bastard son of Aaron Burr. Schuyler wants not to harm Burr, but to ruin Van Buren. Burr, thinking that Schuyler is writing a biography, gives him a memoir. The novel combines Schuyler's point of view with Burr's own memoir, and during the course of the double narrative, Schuyler discovers the truth about Van Buren, and about himself. 430 Pgs. Description text copyright 2007 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 14820.