Table of Contents

* List of Illustrations xi * Acknowledgements xiii * A General Nurses His Wounds * The Quarrelsome Men of Gotham * The New Caesar's Long Shadow * The Temptations of a Vice President * Politicians in the Wilderness * A Wary Candidate Tests the Waters * From Migraine to Miracle * Resist, Resist, Resist the Demagogues * Does Impeachment Justify Secession? * Mudslingers Front and Center * From the Low Road to the Depths * A Distracted Dictator and an Etiquette - Mad President * A Ruined Politician Has a Midnight Visitor * Light in the Labyrinth * Honor's Deadly Ritual * Why Soldiers Why? * This is a Moral Wound, Doctor * Muffled Drums and Beckoning Destiny * Afterward * Notes * Index

About the Author

Thomas Fleming is the author of more than forty books, including The New Dealers' War, Duel, and Liberty! The American Revolution, as well as best-selling novels about America's war experience such as Time and Tide and The Officers' Wives. Fleming is a frequent guest on and contributor to NPR, PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. He lives in New York City and Westbrook, Connecticut.

Reviews

"[A] stunning panorama...masterfully concise.... Duel does a scintillating job of restoring salient edges that decades of historical buffing have rounded." --Kirkus Reviews

"Fleming describes the fateful duel beautifully.... Duel is thoroughly well-written, at once fascinating and instructive. It's almost impossible not to love this book."--Chicago Tribune

"Fleming takes one of the most electrifying stories involving our nation's Founding Fathers and tells it electrically."--St. Louis Post Dispatch

"Thomas Fleming skillfully and vividly re-creates this tumultuous period of the post-1970s that put Hamilton and Burr on their fateful collision course."--Dallas Morning News