Fallen Founder

<b>From the author of <i>White Trash </i>and <i>The Problem of Democracy </i> a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough</b> <p/> Lin-Manuel Miranda's play Hamilton has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among its vibrant cast of characters. With <i>Fallen Founder</i> Nancy Isenberg plumbs rare and obscure sources to shed new light on everyone's favorite founding villain. The Aaron Burr whom we meet through Isenberg's eye-opening biography is a feminist an Enlightenment figure on par with Jefferson a patriot and--most importantly--a man with powerful enemies in an age of vitriolic political fighting. Revealing the gritty reality of eighteenth-century America <i> Fallen Founder</i> is the authoritative restoration of a figure who ran afoul of history and a much-needed antidote to the hagiography of the revolutionary era.