Summary
Traces the career of the third U.S. vice president and would-be secession leader, discussing his acrimonious relationship with Thomas Jefferson; his ambitious vision of expansion; and his historical, self-defended trial for treason. Full description
- The dark star of the founding
- Do not play the fool with his name
- The duel
- On the frontier
- The restless west
- Vice President Burr
- "I ... shall seek another country"
- The adventure begins
- Early doubts
- On the world stage
- Burr's threats
- The baron of the Ouachita Valley
- The western world ignites
- High water mark
- Dancing on the Sabine
- The Daveiss factor
- Escape from Blennerhassett Island
- Wilkinson unchained
- Burr in chains
- When cousins collide
- What is treason?
- Sympathy for villainy
- A mammoth of iniquity
- Searching for an overt act
- A drawn battle
- To Britain
- On the continent
- The history of thy crimes.