"Here is a true picture of Aaron Burr -- gallant soldier of the Revolution; brilliant lawyer who, it is claimed, never lost a case; master politician who forged an irresistible Tammany; --- the man who drove Alexander Hamilton from the political battlefield and slew him on the field of honor; arrested and charged with treason. . . then acquitted after the most famous criminal trial in America." from back cover

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