Vidal assures us, "could, obviously, be based on no one at all") as for the actual historical figures who appear in the novel-only in three minor cases are they not "in the
Vidal identifies in his Afterword as "based roughly on the obscure novelist Charles Burdett" the other is one William de la Touche Clancey, a "Tory sodomite" with a tongue that "darts in and out of his mouth likeĪ lizard's catching flies," who, Mr. Vidal has managed to stick to the actual historical record-only two of his characters are invented (one is Charles Schuyler, a law clerk and aspiring journalist who is the primary narrator of "Burr," and whom Mr. Vidal gives us an interpretation of our early history that says in effect that all the old verities were never much to begin with. History when all the old verities are beginning to seem hollow, Mr. Ow diabolically well-timed is the appearance of Gore Vidal's latest novel, "Burr" just at this most disillusioning moment in American As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States.OctoBack to the First Principals By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT And he is determined to tell his own story. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many.
In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. No writing in margins or on covers, no tears or folded pages.
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