Books
December, 1973
Gore Vidal's new novel, Burr (Random House), explores the "cunning passages" and "contrived corridors" of history with such seeming authenticity and ease of style that purists and patriots are sure to consign the author and his work to the lowest circles of literary hell. Others less pure and patriotic will quaff it like new wine. It's a heady book, enlivened by the crash of falling idols. The time is the 1830s, when young Charles Schuyler, a journalist, sets out to learn the...
