AFTER HAMILTON'S DEATH, I remained at Richmond Hill for ten days. I confess that I was not prepared for the response to our interview. Apparently no one had ever fought a duel in the whole history of the United States until Aaron Burr invented this diabolic game in order to murder the greatest American that ever lived {after George Washington, of course}. Over night the arrogant, mob-detesting Hamilton was metamorphosed into a Christ-like figure with me as the Judas-no, the Caiaphas who so villainously despatched the godhead to its heavenly father {George Washington again} at Weehawk, our new Jerusalem's most unlikely Golgotha. I
( Gore Vidal )
[ Burr ]
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