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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America. By Thomas Fleming. (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. xiii, 446. $30.00.)

The author of this book spurns the explanation that Aaron Burr murdered his long-time rival because of his humiliating defeat in the New York gubernatorial election in 1804. The real tragedy emerges from a deeper appreciation of the protagonists' motivations. Forces and enemies beyond their control and their own human foibles created this downward spiral to death and political suicide. Thomas Fleming weaves an absorbing narrative of the most famous duel in American history.

Fleming aims to paint the big picture. If at ...

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