Burr

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Son of Fire and Brimstone
2. Chapter Two - The Climb Begins
3. Chapter Three - Power and Vice
4. Chapter Four - The Duel That Shook the World
5. Chapter Five - Fugitive Statesman
6. Chapter Six - The Burr Conspiracy
7. Chapter Seven - Exile and Infamy
8. Chapter Eight - Love, Loss, and the Pirate Daughter
9. Chapter Nine - Final Schemes
10. Chapter Ten - Death of a King Without a Crown
11. Chapter Eleven - Legacy of the Traitor King
12. Chapter Twelve - The Ghost in the Republic

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Son of Fire and Brimstone AARON BURR DIDN’T crawl out of obscurity. He was born under fire, to a dynasty of preachers, scholars, and sinners. 1756, Princeton, New Jersey. His father, Rev. Aaron Burr Sr., wasn’t just any preacher. He was president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), and a rising star in colonial theology. His grandfather? Jonathan Edwards, the man who penned “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the sermon that made an entire generation fear hell like it was on their doorstep. This wasn’t a family. It was a furnace of ambition, guilt, and divine pressure. But young Burr’s life? Tragedy on repeat. By the time he was two, both parents were...