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Review: Gore Vidal's Burr Is the Anti-Hamilton

This novel depicts America's Founding through the eyes of the least popular Founding Father.

Jesse Walker | Coming: From the July 2026 issue

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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