War of two : Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the duel that stunned the nation /
Examines the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting vice-president into a fugitive.
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New York :
New American Library,
2016.
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| Edition: | New American Library trade paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The roots of hatred
- In the hands of an angry God
- Contentment
- Platonic love is arrant nonsense
- The prodictious glare of almost perpetual lightning
- Refinement
- In the roseate bowers of Cupid
- Six slayloads of bucks and belles
- Holy ground
- A fever for war
- Liberty or death
- When in the course of human events
- The Malcolms
- A lady with a beautiful waist
- Beauty is woman's sceptre
- The Schuylers
- But a single word, Burr
- A little sorceress
- In ill humour with everything but thee
- Part 2. The battle is joined
- Commentaries on the laws of England
- Children of a larger growth
- Come my charmer and relieve me
- You will become all that I wish
- Two men of politics
- A dreaded dilemma
- To a mind like his nothing comes amiss
- Another long nose
- And we had a bank
- Botanizing
- Embryo-Caesar
- Other than pecuniary consolation
- Sober among the drunks
- I have been so cruelly treated
- Louis Capet has lost his caput
- The best woman and finest lady I have ever known
- Root out the distempered and noisome weed
- Part 3. To the death
- To fight the whole detestable faction
- The bubble of speculation is burst
- An absolute and abominable lie
- Strut is good for nothing
- The lady in the well
- The fangs of Jefferson
- The gigg is therefore up
- A damn'd rascal
- Tant mieux
- A still more despicable opinion
- Part 4. And then there was one
- Have no anxiety about the issue of this business
- A good many incidents to amuse one
- Motives of profound political importance
- A terrible whirlpool, threatening everything
- A slight expression of contempt
- G.H. Edwards
- In the end.
