War of Two · Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation by Sedgwick, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Also by John Sedgwick Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Author’s Note Introduction: The Fatal Dinner PART ONE: The Roots of the Hatred

1. In the Hands of an Angry God 2. Contentment 3. Platonic Love Is Arrant Nonsense 4. The Prodictious Glare of Almost Perpetual Lightning 5. Refinement 6. In the Roseate Bowers of Cupid 7. Six Slayloads of Bucks and Bells 8. Holy Ground 9. A Fever for War 10. Liberty or Death 11. When in the Course of Human Events 12. The Malcolms 13. A Lady with a Beautiful Waist 14. Beauty Is Woman’s Sceptre 15. The Schuylers 16. But a Single Word, Burr 17. A Little Sorceress 18. In Ill Humour with Every Thing but Thee

PART TWO: The Battle Is Joined

19. Commentaries on the Laws of England 20. Children of a Larger Growth 21. Come My Charmer and Relieve Me 22. You Will Become All That I Wish 23. Two Men of Politics 24. A Dreaded Dilemma 25. To a Mind Like His Nothing Comes Amiss 26. Another Long Nose 27. And We Had a Bank 28. Botanizing 29. Embryo-Caesar 30. Other Than Pecuniary Consolation 31. Sober Among the Drunks 32. I Have Been So Cruelly Treated 33. Louis Capet Has Lost His Caput 34. The Best Woman and Finest Lady I Have Ever Known 35. Root Out the Distempered and Noisome Weed

PART THREE: To the Death

36. To Fight the Whole Detestable Faction 37. The Bubble of Speculation Is Burst 38. An Absolute and Abominable Lie 39. Strut Is Good for Nothing 40. The Lady in the Well 41. The Fangs of Jefferson 42. The Gigg Is Therefore Up 43. A Damn’d Rascal 44. Tant Mieux 45. A Still More Despicable Opinion

PART FOUR: And Then There Was One

46. Have No Anxiety About the Issue of This Business 47. A Good Many Incidents to Amuse One 48. Motives of Profound Political Importance 49. A Terrible Whirlpool, Threatening Everything 50. A Slight Expression of Contempt 51. G.H. Edwards 52. In the End Envoi

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