Excerpt from The True Aaron Burr: A Biographical Sketch Colonel Burr trusted to the twentieth century to vindicate him, and certain signs of the times indicate that his trust was not in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.