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	Burr (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burr: A Novel is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal.
		Burr challenges the traditional iconography of American history through a fictional narrative and memoir by Aaron Burr, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War, a lawyer, and the vice president during Thomas Jefferson's first term as president of the United States.
		The novel's portrait of Jefferson is especially dark; he is painted in Burr's memory as a pedantic hypocrite who schemed and bribed witnesses to support a false charge of treason after Burr almost defeated the Virginian in the Presidential election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burr_(novel) (586 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Richard Burr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Richard Mauze Burr (born November 30, 1955) is an American politician and Senator from Winston-Salem, North Carolina; a Republican, he represented North Carolina's 5th Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for five terms, but was recently elected to represent North Carolina as a U.S. Senator in the 2004 election.
		Burr was first elected to Congress in 1994 and was a businessman in Winston-Salem prior to his political career.
		In July 2004, Burr won the Republican primary to seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by John Edwards.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Richard_Burr (203 words)

	Historical novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author.
		The historical novel was popularized in the 19th century by artists classified as Romantics.
		The genre of the historical novel has also permitted some authors, such as the Polish novelist Bolesław Prus in his sole historical novel, Pharaoh, to distance themselves from their own time and place in order to gain perspective on society and on the human condition, or to escape the depredations of the censor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historical_novel (828 words)

	Wikinfo \| Aaron Burr
		Burr was born in Newark, New Jersey, to the Reverend Aaron Burr and Esther Edwards Burr.
		Burr's refusal to give the victory to Jefferson as he had promised cost him the trust of his own party and of Jefferson: for the rest of the administration, Burr was an outsider.
		Burr was at this point without a hope of a comeback in politics, and fled America and his creditors for Europe, where he tried to regain his fortunes.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Aaron_Burr (814 words)

	U.S. Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal - Issue 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jefferson’s posthumous glory is inexplicable to the elderly Burr who, as the presiding authority in the Senate, witnessed Jefferson’s attempt to ‘subvert the Constitution and shatter the Supreme court’ during the trial of Justice Samuel Chase in 1805.
		On Burr's death, it was said, ‘decency congratulated itself that a nuisance was removed, and good men were glad that God had seen fit to deliver society from the contaminating contact of a festering mass of moral putrefaction’.
		Burr’s eventual fate, it is implied, is tied to his contempt for such idealistic claims and his refusal to harness new economic impulses and developments to the spirit of 1776, 1800, 1828 or any other republican meridian.
	www.baas.ac.uk /resources/usstudiesonline/article.asp?issue=1&id=2 (4130 words)

	Book Information: Burr :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		A historical novel about the life and times, in retrospective, of the infamous Aaron Burr, the rogue Revolutionary War hero who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, was tried for treason and served as vice-president under Jefferson.
		The story is recounted to Charles Schuyler, Burr's legal assistant as he enters his dotage in New York City in the early nineteenth century, a small city of vice and intrigue.
		Schuyler is retained by Burr's political enemies to discredit the presidential candidate, Martin van Buren, by proving that he is, in fact, Burr's illegitimate son.
	www.iblist.com /book10881.htm (562 words)

	Lifestyle: Writers' World: Fact as fiction; Oct 19, 2003 The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Burr may want to name his biography 'The Right Place at The Right Time' but his life is also about perceiving the richness of the moment he is living through, and realising its potential.
		Burr considers most poetic the section of the book where he tries to convey to the reader how strange Turin is, intellectually.
		Burr sounds passionate about most things, be it his philosophy or his writing.
	www.the-week.com /23oct19/life6.htm (613 words)

	Burr and Henson (from Gore Vidal)
		Burr's accuser was General James Wilkinson, commander of the US army and "dictator" of New Orleans, who was known to be in the pay of Spain and naturally opposed Burr's purpose of conquering Mexico.
		Burr himself appeared to be "beyond the reach of the Constitution," locked in a tavern in Richmond awaiting the selection of a grand jury from a pool of jurors who all admitted that they considered him guilty.
		Note that Burr and Henson were both charged with misdemeanors, although both their lives were at stake due on the one hand to the charge of treason (albeit misdemeanor treason) against Burr and on the other to the threats against Henson's life if he went to jail.
	www.holysmoke.org /kh/kh603.htm (2383 words)

	Articles - Bur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In certain species of plants, burr is a seed or dry fruit in which the seeds bear hooks or teeth which attach themselves to fur or clothing of passing animals or people.
		In engineering, a burr refers to a deformation of metal wherin a raised edge forms on a metal part which has been machined.
		A burr puzzle is a type of interlocking mechanical puzzle.
	www.kimia-sains.com /articles/Bur (169 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Burr by Gore Vidal
		With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
		Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers.
		In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375708732 (240 words)

	Amazon.ca: Burr: a Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But this novel is even better than that kind of satire: I studied its structure and characters in far greater detail this time around, and came to believe that the historical details obscure a truly masterful performance by a modern writer.
		And this novel is also the start of a kind of longitudinal Balzacian literary experiment in which the reader sees characters and their descendants re-appear to make their mark over 150 years.
		Burr was my first introduction to Gore Vidal's panoramic vision of American history, and I have to admit that the first time I picked up the book I drifted off and put it down, disappointed by the early focus on elderly Aaron Burr's marriage to a wealthy widow.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375708731 (1307 words)

	Free Times: Book Reviews: Hamilton, Burr and Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Roger Kennedy’s Burr, Hamilton and Jefferson: A Study in Character is a case for the defense, presented as if Kennedy were making a summation to the jury of history itself; one images his client would like his country lawyer style and barbed wit.
		For Kennedy, the Burr case is also a matter of “consider the source”; Burr’s character must be judged in part by the character of his friends, associates, and those who had an axe to grind.
		Burr described himself as “ a grave, silent, strange sort of animal, inasmuch that we know not what to make of him.” His life molded him that way.
	www.free-times.com /Reviews/burrhamilton.html (1517 words)

	Lincoln (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lincoln is a historical novel by Gore Vidal, published in 1984.
		The novel's emphasis is on the President's political and personal struggles, and not the battles of the Civil War.
		This article about a historical novel is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lincoln_(novel) (120 words)

	Willamette Week \| BiblioFile
		Here Roger Kennedy retrieves Burr from the slag heap of history and rehabilitates him as perhaps the most progressive of the founding fathers: a fervent abolitionist, early feminist and friend to the Indians long before such ideals were considered kosher.
		Despite this imbalance in the documentary evidence, Kennedy presents a compelling case that Burr was not a traitor, as Jefferson charged in 1806.
		(Burr was later acquitted of treason by four separate juries, an indication of Jefferson's stubbornness as much as Burr's probable innocence.) Instead, Kennedy shows that Burr exhibited every sign of loyalty to the young republic, whose borders he probably hoped to expand by force--much as Jefferson would do by checkbook with the Louisiana Purchase.
	www.wweek.com /html/biblio030100.html (773 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Burr, by Gore Vidal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Gore Vidal once described himself as a "border lord" in the "dying kingdom of literature." While the kingdom may in fact be dying, Vidal's rank in it is of course far more baronial than his modest trope suggests.
		...Always a profligate spender, Burr dies a virtual pauper, disgraced in the eyes of all except a small coterie of loyal friends and followers, but nonetheless resigned within himself to the life he has led and the role he has played...
		...and the effect is that while the novel is technically wellorganized, its spirit is static and crude...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V57I3P78-1.htm (1143 words)

	Catherine Burr: Tips on love from experts - Romance novel writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Last week, Burr, who lives in Saratoga, met with four local romance authors at the Red Lion Inn in Sacramento to swap life stories and exchange their thoughts on how to keep the romance alive.
		Burr's passion for writing is reflected in her latest book and first romantic novel, "Silicon Secrets." It's the tale of a money-hungry, power-driven man from Europe who seeks out his fortune in the Silicon Valley but is swayed from his path by Heather, a beautiful, beach-loving artist.
		Burr said the research involved in romance writing is part of the fun -- and, of course, it didn't hurt that her husband of 23 years works as a business executive in Silicon Valley, where her latest story takes place.
	www.catherineburr.com /index_files/page0009.htm (993 words)

	Benzene 4
		Vidal's historical novels set in America are separate stories loosely connected by a familial continuity of the fictional protagonists.
		Because old Burr is a political liability, all of the leading politicians of the day -- or at least their partisans -- are trying to hide their own connections to Burr while uncovering that of their opponents.
		At the center of this political intrigue is the narrator, a young journalist to whom Burr is dictating his memoirs so that he might write a biography.
	radio.weblogs.com /0134204/2004/05/31.html (905 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| Don't Judge His Heart
		We are prepared to like Burr better than people used to like him because he is more the kind of thing we like, as Gore Vidal first recognized in his own, fictional rehabilitation of the man in his novel, Burr, written nearly thirty years ago.
		Burr, however, not only insisted on the apology that Hamilton could not in honor give but refused to specify the precise offense, referring only to a third party’s vague report that Hamilton had expressed "a still more despicable opinion" of Burr at a dinner party.
		Hamilton himself objected that Burr's inquiry was too vague for "a direct avowal or disavowal." But Burr felt such a compelling need to prove himself a man of honor and a political leader that he responded to Hamilton’s protests by broadening his demands: he demanded an apology for any "rumours derogatory to Col: Burr’s honor.
	www.jamesbowman.net /article_print.asp?pubID=1436 (3606 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Reading, Writing, and History
		And yet when he did try a few chapters of a novel about Buchanan, it was the stubborn difference between fact and invention that bothered him, so that perhaps the novel might have “aborted” (as he puts it) even had he not encountered Professor Klein’s biography.
		In Burr: A Novel Jefferson is seen as a consummate politician, with all of the worst attributes of that breed of American and few redeeming features: he is crafty, unreliable, two-faced, shrewd but shallow, endlessly the calculating opportunist.
		Some novels and plays will come closer to historical truth than others, depending upon how faithful the authors are to “contemporary evidence.” Beyond that, as the examples of Vidai and Updike demonstrate, it makes a difference how unpretentious the author is, how openly he indicates what he has invented and what he has not.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1974/4/1974_4_98.shtml (2839 words)

	TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 12. Alexander Hamilton, American and Duel. Richard C. Leone. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Party politics was in its infancy when Burr was widely believed to be attempting to convince Federalist electors that throwing their support to him would be infinitely preferable to four years of the thoroughly anti-Federalist sage of Monticello.
		True, Burr lived on until 1836, but his falling out with Jefferson, the duel, and his subsequent flirtation with an independent "empire" in the West meant that he never again played in the upper echelons of American power.
		While it may be true that Burr and Hamilton were doing no more than what many politicians would do to their enemies, the law and culture permitting, that does not change the fact that they also were establishing a foundation of laws and tradition that has had a lasting impact on our nation.
	www.prospect.org /print/V11/12/leone-r.html (1537 words)

	Perry Mason
		Burr provided the characterization of a cool, calculating attorney, while the production style builds tension in plots at once solidly formulaic and cleverly surprising, and Gardner, as an uncredited executive story editor, made sure each episode carefully blended legal drama with clever detective work.
		But it is Burr's coolness and control that became so identified with the character that, for the television audience, there was no other Mason than Burr.
		Burr is back as Mason, albeit a bit older, grayer and bearded, with Barbara Hale as his executive secretary.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/perrymason/perrymason.htm (1041 words)

	Term Paper on Aaron Burr Essay
		Burr Essay andlt;Tab/andgt;The novel Burr, by Gore Vidal, describes the life and historical significance of Aaron Burr.
		Burr had several historically significant events that he influenced.
		Colonel Burr shot and killed General Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Aaron_Burr_Essay-162957.html (167 words)

	audiobook reviews, author interviews and more.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Best of all, never once does she let on that getting through the novel may have been a grind.
		And Burr proves that a skillful narration goes a long way in keeping the story moving.
		Now, the wait begins for number six, in which surely some old-timer is going to recognize Ayla as the spitting image of her mother and solve the mystery of the identity of her birth family, killed in an earthquake.
	www.audiobookcafe.com /FtrLst1.cfm?FtrCatCod=3&Code=24 (1063 words)

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		Burr is a fascinating, independent and unpredictable man. Through the contradictions and complexity of his life, we are witness to the historic events and remarkable personalities that shaped our nation.
		In the novel, portions of the memoir are also written by Burr's confidant, a young journalist named Charlie Schuyler who is one of only two fictional characters in the book.
		Burr was the more effective in a court-room because his mind was swifter than Hamilton's; also, of an entire generation of public men, Burr was free of cant: he never moralized unless to demonstrate a paradox.
	education.boisestate.edu /bdavies/burr.htm (497 words)

	EI > Interviews > Writer/director Burr Steers, Amanda Peet and Ryan Philippe (Part II)
		BURR: I had a wonderful DP and I sat down weeks before with him going through the script, and told him what I needed and wanted, and he would tell me what the choices were to visually communicate what I wanted.
		BURR: I actually have rights to a book called LIGHTNING OF THE SUN which I think is the book of my generation.
		Burr made me feel very free and what was on the page was so incredible.
	www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/igby2.php (3187 words)

	TIME.com: The World According to Gore -- Page 1
		But the novel completes a very American literary project that, for all its various humors, Vidal takes seriously indeed: a fictional history of the U.S. as portrayed through the conduct, mostly bad, of its elected leaders.
		The second Roosevelt in the White House receives similar treatment in "The Golden Age." As the novel opens in 1940, FDR is shown secretly maneuvering the country toward a war in Europe that the people would, if consulted, totally reject.
		Vidal's big sprawling novel about America's transformation during and after World War II coats its ethical inquiries with plenty of narrative sweeteners: the sweep of history, celebrity walk-ons, conspiracy theories and reams of conversation, much of it witty, some lumbering.
	www.time.com /time/arts/article/0,8599,55047,00.html (1348 words)

	Chandler Burr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Chandler Burr began his journalism career as a stringer at the Christian Science Monitor's Southeast Asia bureau in Manila, then earned a Masters in International Economics and Japan studies from the Paul H. Nitze School/Johns Hopkins.
		Burr is The New York Times' writer on scent.
		Burr is represented by Eric Simonoff of Janklow and Nesbit, New York.
	www.chandlerburr.com /newsite/content/biography.php (215 words)

	Saratoga News \| Author Catherine Burr
		Burr says she frequently got story ideas at these functions, which she jotted down on notepads, scratch paper and even napkins.
		When Burr began her novel, she says she wasn't sure how to begin, but she got help from her sister as well as from the Romance Writers of America, an organization to which Burr belongs.
		Burr says she uses the laid-back atmosphere of Sea Breeze as a contrast to the fast-paced lifestyle of the main cities of Silicon Valley, which appear under other names in her novel.
	www.svcn.com /archives/saratoganews/05.15.02/author-0220.html (807 words)

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