nature me. aaron burr in an effort to rehabilitate, a tiny a little bit. he s not the hero of hamilton, let s just stipulate that. if you ll stand for nothing, what will you fall for, senator lee? it s a great line as is the line where they refer to aaron burr as the damn fool who shot him, the guy who shot alexander hamilton. that s what a lot of us think of. the point in my book and the chapter that discusses aaron burr. he was a lot more complicated than that. he served as vice president under thomas jempson s first administration and he was the defender of the rights of the accused. he put principal over party in many circumstances and part for that reason he won the eminemty of thomas jefferson. when burr was no longer his vice president, jefferson went after burr and had him prosecuted aggressively for treason. he could have lost his freedom and also his life given that this was a capital offense. this stands as a lasting