I couldn't get through this book because I found the characters uninteresting. Unlike Myra Breckenridge, which I couldn't put down and finished in two days. This one, though filled with facts regarding this time period, was boring. The characters are not interesting enough to hold you, and the history of the events clouds the motivations of all that are involved in the story. Read Myra Breckenridge, or his other books. Some other reviewers said Burr was fantastic.