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Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the U.S.A., and in case you don’t know, in 1804 he was shot and killed in a duel by one Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States. Poor Burr, lumbered with this legacy! Well, decades ago, in 1973 in fact, Gore Vidal came to Burr’s rescue in his wonderful historical novel It’s just been reprinted. It’s a superb tale that will have you curled up in a chair in no time. Best of all, Gore Vidal, who could always be depended upon to cause an upset, presents Burr as a hero rather than as a scoundrel. It was the first in Vidal’s American history series. It’s set in the 1830s, so there’s the story then, but also the story based on his recollections of the revolutionary war, the early history of the Republic, and his famous contests with Hamilton and Jefferson. It’s an amazing work of historical imagination and hugely entertaining, and a fabulous antidote to Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton. So good to see it reprinted and available to a new generation.
