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Burr: A Novel 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. [1]
Though Burr (1973) is the second book published in the series, it is first chronologically, taking placed in 1775–1808, 1833–1836, and 1840. [2] [3] In the novel, set during the politically contentious era of the Jackson administration, an elderly and active Aaron Burr recounts his experiences of the Revolutionary War and America's Founding Fathers to a young law clerk secretly working for ...
His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, the plot being about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship. [4] In the historical novel genre, Vidal recreated the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361–363) in Julian (1964).
The protagonist is a young US Army lieutenant, Philip Nolan, who develops a friendship with the visiting Aaron Burr. When Burr is tried for treason, [n 1] Nolan is tried as an accomplice. During his testimony, he bitterly renounces his nation and, "in an intemperate outburst" [2] shouts . Damn the United States!
Burr begins to reflect, for the benefit of the novel's protagonist, upon what precipitated the duel, and then, to the unease of his one-person audience, acts out the duel itself. The chapter concludes with Burr describing the personal, public, and political consequences he endures in the duel's aftermath.
Burr mill, used to grind hard, small food products; Bur or burr, a spiky seed pod; Burl, burr in British English, an irregular growth in trees; Burr or Borr, a god of Norse mythology; × Burrageara, an orchid genus for which the abbreviation is Burr. Butch cut, a haircut, for which burr is an alternative name
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The book was unable to get certification for publication thus making it banned in Vietnam [303] "Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968" Nha Ca: 1969 Nonfiction The book was banned for its criticism of the actions of the national liberation front and for acknowledging the 1968 massacre of 6000 civilians in Huế