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Burr, Hamilton, And The Duel

Penguin Books

It's weird enough to think about one of our founding fathers being killed in a duel. 

It's just that much weirder to imagine the sitting Vice-President of the United States pulling the trigger. 

But that's what happened when Aaron Burr faced Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. 

John Sedgwick, whose ancestor was Speaker of the House at the time, writes of the friendship-turned-sour between the men in War of Two.

Sedgwick joins us to explore the evidence that the feud was about more than personal slights.   

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.