For fifty-three days in the steamy summer of 1807, Harman Blennerhassett, arrested for his part in Aaron Burr's conspiracy to sever the United States, was confined in the Richmond Penitentiary awaiting his trial for treason. Breaking with Burr: Harman Blennerhassett's Journal, 1807 is the first complete publication, newly transcribed from the manuscript, of his private diary of that experience. Blennerhassett, a rebellious and brilliant Irish aristocrat...
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