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In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned young. Both were fantastic students who attended school - one at Princeton, the other at Columbia - and examined legislation. Both were young personnel officers under General George Washington, and both became battle heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the recently formed federal of the fledgling nation. Why, then, do both of these face one another at dawn in a duel that concluded with death for one and opprobrium for the other? Judith St. George's lively biography, advised in alternating chapters, brings alive two complicated men who performed major assignments in the forming of america.
