![]() Vidal has managed to stick to the actual historical record-only two of his characters are invented (one is Charles Schuyler, a law clerk and aspiring journalist who is the primary narrator of "Burr," and whom Mr. Vidal gives us an interpretation of our early history that says in effect that all the old verities were never much to begin with. ![]() ![]() History when all the old verities are beginning to seem hollow, Mr. ![]() Ow diabolically well-timed is the appearance of Gore Vidal's latest novel, "Burr" just at this most disillusioning moment in American OctoBack to the First Principals By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT ![]()
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