Hamilton And Burr Biase Analysis

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The author did make some few arguments about how Hamilton’s and burr’s assistance and comparing which one was telling the truth or what was the facts. Biases were the number one reason America had to start with war. Because many things were unfair to them instead of ruling themselves and their own world not others like England. There were some few sentences that Ellis writes his own form to understand the reader of what is going on. Only chapter that it was really interested was the farewell. Why it got interested? Because we know a bit more about why did the first president of the United States of America, which is George Washington, had a time to retire from the presidency. I knew it was not a sad feeling for all the constitutional, but he

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