Fallen Founder: The Life Of Aaron Burr

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I will admit that for all the nonfiction books I have read, I have never looked for author bias. The biography alone provides a fascinating and authentic account of Burr's life, though the interpretation of Aaron's personality and role in the founding of early America is relatively overblown. Based of the title alone: Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, you can already see Isenberg's bias. I wouldn't necessarily consider Aaron Burr a "founder" per say. The man in question had no role in the drafting of the constitution and most of his help during the revolutionary war was as an officer in Canada. His only real role that could help consider him a founder was his role of New York lawyer and politician. Isenberg also illustrates Burr as a

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