The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War —a fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American history—a Revolutionary War hero, vice president of the United States, and the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.  But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this biography, Burr was a man before his time—a proponent of equality between the sexes well over a century before women were able to vote in the US. Through Burr's