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Index
COVER
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
One. A MAN OF PROMISING PARTS
“A LITTLE DIRTY NOISY BOY”
“AND LEARNS BRAVELY”
KITH AND KIN
NASSAU HALL
“MY DEAR LITTLE FELLOW”
“ON HONOR”
MARKS OF DESTINY
Two. TO CONCERT WITH MY BROTHER OFFICERS
FORTUNE FAVORS THE AUDACIOUS
“MY DEAREST SOLDIER”
“MY GOOD OLD GENERAL”
TO DO “JUSTICE TO THE VIGILANT MEN”
“DIRTY EARWIGS”
Three. SUCH ARE THE LETTERS I LOVE
“UNHAPPY NYMPH!”
THE “MISTRESS OF YOUR AFFECTIONS”
“A PLACE SACRED TO LOVE, REFLECTION, AND BOOKS”
“WOMEN HAVE SOULS!”
Four. AN UNPREJUDICED MIND
ANOTHER “LABORIOUS PIECE OF BUSINESS”
“LAND MATTERS”
FOR “THE PEACE, LIBERTY, AND HONOR OF THE STATE”
“TWISTINGS, COMBINATIONS AND MANEUVERS”
“I DO NOT PRETEND TO CONTROL THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS”
“YOUR FRIENDS EVERY WHERE LOOK TO YOU”
“THE WITS, THE SALT, THE BRILLIANCY OF SOCIETY”
“POOR COLN BUR HAS LOST HIS WIFE”
Five. A CERTAIN LITTLE SENATOR
THE “PATRIOTIC TEN”
“MAD AMBITION IN HIS BOSOM BURN”
“MR. NOBODY”
“THE MOST HUMILIATING EVENT OF MY LIFE”
“RESENTMENT IS MORE DIGNIFIED WHEN JUSTICE IS RENDERED”
“WAS ARNOLD A FOREIGNER . . . ?”
Six. THE STATESMAN AND THE SOLDIER
HE “HAS DONE A GREAT DEAL TOWARD REVOLUTIONIZING THE STATE”
THE “MONSTER IN OUR CITY”
“THE THOUSAND TONGUES OF RUMOUR”
“HE DESERVES ANY THING AND EVERY THING OF HIS COUNTRY”
“ET TU, BRUTE!”
“I SHALL ACT IN DEFIANCE OF ALL TIMID TEMPORIZING PROJECTS”
Seven. THE RUIN OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
A “SLASHING WORK”
“AARON BURR!”
“AN INSINUATING DECEITFULNESS . . . CALCULATED TO FASCINATE YOUTH”
“SYNTAX”
“IF IT SHOULD BE MY LOT TO FALL”
“A SORT OF EXILE”
Eight. LITTLE QUID EMPEROR
“ONE OF THE BEST PRESIDING OFFICERS I EVER WITNESSED”
“AWAKENED FROM A KIND OF TRANCE”
HAD “TURNED HIMSELF WHOLLY TOWARD MEXICO”
“MEXICO GLITTERS IN OUR EYES”
“TO ORLEANS, AND PERHAPS FURTHER”
THE “NEW CATALINA”
THE “INQUISITIONS OF EUROPE”
“CRONONHOTON THOLOGOS”
Nine. WILL O’ WISP TREASON
“MR. JEFFERSON HAS BEEN TOO HASTY”
“ABOUNDING IN CRUDITIES AND ABSURDITIES”
“THE ACQUITTAL OF COLONEL BURR WILL BE A SATIRE ON THE GOVERNMENT”
“MAMMOTH OF INIQUITY”
“WHO IS BLENNERHASSETT?”
“I NEVER BELIEVED HIM TO BE A FOOL”
Ten. THAT STRANGER WAS AARON BURR
“WE WILL REFORM”
“FOLLIES”
“PASSING TO ANOTHER PLANET”
“AN AMERICAN NAPOLEON”
“TO FILL HIS LORDSHIP’S TANKARD”
“A HALO OF GENIUS SHONE AROUND HIM”
“MADAME OF THE HEIGHTS”
Epilogue: HE USED NO UNNECESSARY WORDS
“THE ODD MAN OUT”
NOTES
INDEX
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