The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Audiobook (Free)

In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned young. Both were brilliant students who went to college–one at Princeton, the various other at Columbia–and examined law. Both had been young staff officials under General George Washington, and both became battle heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each offered in the recently formed government of the fledgling country. Why, then, do these two encounter one another at dawn inside a duel that ended with death for one and opprobrium for the other?Judith St. George’s energetic biography, told in alternating chapters, provides alive two complex males who played main roles in the forming of the United States.