Archive for November 2011
On the Road Again
I’ll be working my way up the East Coast this week, spreading the Gospel of Burr in book talks. Do come out and say hello! Monday, 7:30 p.m.: Princeton NJ…
Read MoreOld Friends
Over the last few months, I’ve been able to spend time with a lot of old friends. It started over the summer, when about 35 of us from college, mutually…
Read MoreBurr on Staten Island
As a dutiful son of Staten Island, I have been warmed to know that Aaron Burr died in September 1836 in a hotel in Port Richmond, on the island’s north…
Read MoreBurr on Trial!
On Friday, November 11, Aaron Burr faced a panel of judges again. This time, though, AB (as he signed his letters) was portrayed by the irrepressible Prof. Ronald Collins, while…
Read MoreAll Burr, All the Time, No. 3
I seem to have stirred up a partisan hornet’s nest with a piece on Politico.com this morning, wondering whether Aaron Burr and Dick Cheney should be deemed our “most notorious…
Read MoreAll Burr, All the Time, No. 2
Just back from the first week of intense promotion of American Emperor, and the feeling out there was great: Started this week in Louisville at the Filson Historical Society, where…
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