American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America [Paperback]

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decade.

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David O. Stewart portrays Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decade. Stewart’s vivid account of Burr’s tumultuous life offers a rare and eye-opening description of the brand-new nation struggling to define itself.David O. Stewart is an award-winning author and the president of theWashington Independent Review of Books. He is the author of several acclaimed histories, includingMadison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America;The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution;Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy; andAmerican Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America. Stewart’s first novel isThe Lincoln Deception.