| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason. By Buckner F. Melton, Jr. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 278 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $27.95.)

Aaron Burr continues to fascinate us. There is no doubt that he killed Alexander Hamilton, but was he ready to betray his country in order to build a personal empire in the American Southwest? Buckner F. Melton, Jr. is the latest of a dozen or so writers who have attempted to sort out this complex story. It is a story that defies revision, and the best account is still Thomas Perkins Abernethy's The Burr Conspiracy (New York, 1954). . . .

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