Author : Joseph Wheelan
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9780786716890
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Jefferson's Vendetta by : Joseph Wheelan
Download or read book Jefferson's Vendetta written by Joseph Wheelan and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Americans have known Thomas Jefferson as one of our unambiguously great presidents, a man of honor and optimism unencumbered by pettiness and spite; and so they have known Aaron Burr, his greatest adversary, as a traitorous would-be destroyer of that distinguished legacy. In Jefferson's Vendetta, Joseph Wheelan examines one of the eminent political rivalries in our history, set against the backdrop of postcolonial Virginia, and discovers a truth vastly different from what is taught in high schools and universities. Here is Burr, the flawed but gifted politician who made powerful enemies because his charm and skill rivaled Jefferson's own, and who trusted the fairness of American democracy too deeply to rebut the wild criticisms aimed at him by slanderers in the U.S. government. And here, in vivid detail, is Jefferson, whose obsessive crusade to destroy Burr was undone by one mammoth but historically overlooked miscalculation. Exquisitely researched and brilliantly written, Jefferson's Vendetta challenges the blackened legacy of Aaron Burr and shows the beloved President Jefferson mired in the kind of hateful and manipulative politics that tradition has depicted him as rising above.