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Chapter I ANCESTRAL VOICES

1. Respectable Burrs

2. The Odor of Sanctity

3. High Priest of Calvinism

4. The Daughter of Puritans

Chapter II CHILDHOOD

1. A Son is Born

2. Swift Tragedy

3. Orphans

Chapter III COLLEGE YEARS

1. The Insatiable Student

2. Myths in the Making

3. The Students Get Religion

4. Graduation

5. The Footsteps of His Fathers

6. Idyllic Interlude

Chapter IV SWORDS AND BULLETS

1. The Call to Arms

2. On to Quebec

3. Siege and Assault

4. End of the Venture

5. Major Burr of the Staff

6. Burr Rescues a Brigade

7. Military Intelligence

Chapter V THE WAR GOES ON

1. Promotion

2. Martinet Burr

3. Mutiny

4. Secret Service

5. No Man’s Land

6. Resignation

7. The War Horse Snuffs Battle

Chapter VI PRELUDE TO LIFE

1. Courtship and Law Books

2. Special Dispensation

3. Theodosia Prevost Burr

4. Entering Wedge

Chapter VII CHIEFLY LEGAL

1. Political Interlude

2. Practicing Attorney

3. Domesticity

Chapter VIII THE POLITICIAN EMBARKED

1. Preview

2. Stepping-stone

3. Into the Arena

Chapter IX THE GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK

1. Strictly Professional

2. Senatorial Duties

3. Eyes on New York

4. Burr Decides an Election

Chapter X INTERMEDIATE YEARS

1. Hamilton Calls Names

2. Withdrawal and a Bargain

3. Richmond Hill and the Arts

4. Financial Legerdemain

5. Experiment in Education

6. Aspasia

Chapter XI PARTY GROWTH

1. Republican Cockades

2. Almost Minister to France

3. The Jay Treaty

4. Republican Defeat

5. Virginia Breaks a Promise

Chapter XII BURR STOOPS TO CONQUER

1. The Lowly Assemblyman

2. Almost a Brigadier

3. Strange Bedfellows

4. The Holland Land Company

5. Watering a Bank

6. The Pot and the Kettle

Chapter XIII THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1. Burr Drafts a Ticket

2. Tammany Marches to the Polls

3. Clinton or Burr?

4. Hamilton Writes a Pamphlet

5. Downfall of Federalism

Chapter XIV JEFFERSON OR BURR

1. Premonitory Murmurs

2. The Federalists Take Stock

3. Republican Fears

4. The House Votes

5. The House Elects

6. Cause and Effects

Chapter XV VICE-PRESIDENT BURR

1. Pride Goeth

2. The Spoils of Office

3. Grim Prospects and Idle Dalliance

4. The Judiciary Bill

5. Sundry Errors in Tactics

Chapter XVI THE LAST STRUGGLE FOR POWER

1. Escape Fantasies

2. Jefferson in the Saddle

3. Burr for Governor

Chapter XVII TRAGIC DUEL

1. Provocation

2. Apologia

3. Pistols for Two; Coffee for One

4. Indicted for Murder

5. Southern Journey

Chapter XVIII THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUSTICE CHASE

1. Jefferson Suddenly Courts Burr

2. Trial and Acquittal

3. A Long Farewell

4. L’Envoi

Chapter XIX BACKGROUNDS FOR THE CONSPIRACY

1. Westward the Course of Empire

2. Hamilton and Miranda

3. Foreign Aid

4. Creole Grievances

5. “The Finished Scoundrel”

Chapter XX WESTERN JOURNEY

1. Houseboat on the Ohio

2. Yrujo Starts a Backfire

3. Finances

4. Recruiting

5. Plot and Counterplot

Chapter XXI NEVER TO RETURN

1. The Fatal Cipher

2. The Bastrop Purchase

3. The Cat Jumps

4. The Betrayal

Chapter XXII THE MAN HUNT STARTS

1. Accusations in Kentucky

2. Action in Washington

3. Attack on the Island

4. Odyssey

Chapter XXIII DICTATORSHIP IN NEW ORLEANS

1. Gooseflesh and Sword Rattling

2. Surrender in Mississippi

3. Vindication

4. Escape and Arrest

5. Via Dolorosa

Chapter XXIV THE STAGE IS SET

1. Convicted in Advance

2. Preliminary Trials

Chapter XXV TRIED FOR TREASON

1. The Titans Gather

2. Marshall Defines Treason

3. Court Convenes

4. The President is Subpoenaed

5. The Mammoth of Iniquity

6. The Grand Jury Indicts

Chapter XXVI ON TRIAL

1. Oranges and Jail

2. Arrest of Testimony

3. The Misdemeanor Is Tried

4. Further Commitment

5. Mob Spirit

Chapter XXVII MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

1. Flight

2. England Is Not Interested

3. The Grand Tour

4. Swedish Journey

5. Hamlet and Goethe

Chapter XXVIII FAILURE IN FRANCE

1. Proposals to Napoleon

2. Desperate Straits

3. England Again

4. Exile’s Return

Chapter XXIX DECLINING YEARS

1. Double Tragedy

2. The Eden Case

3. Of Many Matters

4. Old and Wealthy Woman

5. Finale

6. L’Envoi

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INDEX