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Review: Gore Vidal's Burr Is the Anti-Hamilton

America's Founding through the eyes of the least popular Founding Father

Jesse Walker | From the July 2026 issue

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If Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton was well-suited for the pieties of the Obama years, then the anti-Hamilton, Gore Vidal's Burr, was even more auspiciously timed. The 1973 novel came out not just as the Bicentennial was approaching........

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