A provocative and penetrating research into the contention among Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose notorious duel left the Founding Father useless and became a sitting vp right into a fugitive. 

In the summer season of 1804, of America’s most outstanding statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff alongside the Hudson River. That such males might hazard not just their lives however the balance of the younger state they helped forge is sort of past comprehension. but we all know that it occurred. The query is why. 

In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing clash among Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and vice chairman Aaron Burr. A research in contrasts from delivery, that they had been compatriots, colleagues, or even pals. yet mainly they have been opponents. Matching each one other’s ambition and talent as attorneys in ny, they later battled for energy alongside political fault strains that might not just come to a decision the way forward for the U.S., yet outline it. 
 
A sequence of letters among Burr and Hamilton recommend the duel used to be fought over an unflattering remark made at a cocktail party. yet one other letter, written by way of Hamilton the evening sooner than the development, presents severe perception into his real motivation. It was once addressed to former Speaker of the home Theodore Sedgwick, a relied on good friend of either males, and the author’s personal ancestor. 

John Sedgwick means that Hamilton observed Burr now not in simple terms as a private rival yet as a possibility to the state. Burr might turn out that worry justified after Hamilton’s loss of life while, haunted by way of the legacy of his longtime adversary, he launched into an imperial scheme to wreck the Union apart.

From the Hardcover edition.