Through early American times many men have contributed to our progresses from George Washington to John Adams to Alexander Hamilton. Early Americans came from either a colorful background or worked their way to the top through satisfaction and personal motivation. Aaron Burr followed in the footsteps from what he knew from his father and surpassed ten-fold, even if his father's time was more or less the American religion era rather than the sudden uprising of political issues he faced. Milton Lomask follows the course of Aaron Burr's life in this book from his unexpected birth into the world, to his legendary dual, and unforgettable accomplishments such as his political statures and being Mr. Vice President.

In the whole Burr dynasty Lomask follows, he opens with the introduction of Aaron Burr's mother and her statement about Aaron's birth with his mother saying, "he began life as he lived it, unexpectedly." This small insight made is one I find intriguing due to the fact of its accuracy. Aaron Burr ran his life according to his rules and no one would tell him otherwise. Aaron Burr utilized this quality to play the events of his life unfoldin

g by ear. Aaron's mother's documentation follows with his father Esther Edwards Burr, otherwise known as the Reverend Aaron Burr. Departing just days before his son's birth due to his duties as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey, and as president of the College of New Jersey later known as Princeton, was uncontrollably absent. Now it is understood the shoes the infamous Aaron Burr had to follow. Later in the opening paragraphs of Lomask's biography Milton speaks of the trechurous road young Aaron experienced. Within thirteen months Aaron Burr and his sister Sally, lost their father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother, "not an easy situation for such young children to understand," Lomask. Can you imagine the grief and horror of the two and a half year old Aaron and almost five-year-old Sally must have felt. As the years passed by, Aaron became a gentleman soldier, began practicing law, got more into political issues, and his pursuit of filling his father's shoes.

President sunk so low as to submit to be insulated by General Hamilton?" Hamiltons's remarks were later found to have been made at a dinner party at the home of Judge John Taylor of Albany. One of the guests was Taylor's son-in-law, Dr. Charles D. Cooper, who in two subsequent letters described the conversation. Burr may or may not have seen the first letter. He definitely saw the published version of the second one, a letter in which Dr. Cooper wrote that "General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared, in substance, that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man," and that "I could detail to you a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr." A few months later, at two o'clock in the afternoon, July 12, 1804 Hamilton died in the infamous duel between him and Aaron Burr at Weekawken. It was said after the duel that Burr and Van Ness insisted that Hamilton fired first at his opponent. Pendleton disagreed. He contended that Hamilton's pistol discharged accidentally, probably as a result of an involuntary exertion of the muscles when Burr's bullet struck him. There on that da

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