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CONTENTS Introduction The Documents Conclusion ILLUSTRATIONS Aaron Burr, 1802 Alexander Hamilton, 1802 Letter of Burr to Hamilton Letter of Hamilton to Burr

About the Author

HAROLD C. SYRETT (1913 1984) was president of Brooklyn College, professor of American history at Columbia University and executive editor of the 26-volume Papers of Alexander Hamilton. JEAN G. COOKE is assistant editor of the multi-volume Papers of Alexander Hamilton. WILLARD M. WALLACE (1911 2000) was an American historian who taught at Wesleyan University from 1945 to 1981. His numerous books include Soul of the Lion and Connecticut's Dark Star of the Revolution.