BURR is a Best Seller
This week was the 212th anniversary of the duel in which Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton.
Could that be the reason that Gore Vidal’s novel Burr (PRH/Vingate) hits the new USA Today best seller list 43 years after it was originally published?
Probably not. More likely, the sudden was sparked by a certain play, the same one that brought Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (PRH/Penguin) back to best seller lists.
Hamilton’s ghost can take comfort in the fact that his bio is currently at #18 at USA Today‘s list, while the novel Burr is much further down, at #124.
Several publications have given attention to Vidal’s book recently, including,
The Smithsonian, “Before There Was Hamilton There Was Burr”, 6/6/16
The Washington Post, “Hamilton is a smash. Why so few other stories about the American Revolution?“, 7/6/16
In addition, there’s been stories about Brandon Victor Dixon who recently replaced Leslie Odom Jr. in the role of Burr.