This is the made-up 'book within a book' of the post-apocalyptic novel The Postman, we get a one page excerpt from it and a description of its contents and author. It's a biography of Aaron Burr that ties into the author's overarching idea (it's implied that he's written other works) that the ideal state of mankind is one where everyone gives up on peace and order and instead accepts that might makes right and allows every generation of men to go out and fight for their fortune. It essentially argues that Aaron Burr was trying to implement this in North America but got cucked by Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers who conceived of the United States as a goodboy basedstate (as does the actual author of The Postman). I'd really like to know what the real-life inspiration for this was, it's hard to imagine the author coming up with this without one (it's a fairly boring and shallow novel in almost every other regard, I don't think he's that creative). I'm sure you could find a few examples of books that advocate a similar worldview, but where did the idea about Aaron Burr come from?
LOST EMPIREby Nathan HolnToday, as we approach the end of the Twentieth century, The great struggles of our time are said to be between the so-called Left and the so-called Right-- Those great behemoths of a contrived, fictious political spectrum. Very few people seem to be aware that these so-called opposites are, in reality, two faces to the same sick beast. There is a widespread blindness, which keeps millions from seeing how they have been fooled by this fabrication.But it was not always so. Nor will it always be. In other tracts I have spoken of other types of systems -- of the honour of medieval japan, of the glorious, wild American Indians, and of shining Europe during the period Effete scholars today call it's "dark age".One thing history tells us, over and over again. Throughout all eras, some have commanded, while others have obeyed. It is a pattern of loyalty and power that is both honourable and natural . Feudalism has always been our way, as a species, ever since we foraged in wild bands and screamed defiance at each other from opposing hilltops.That is, it was always our way until men were perverted, the strong sapped by the whimpering propaganda of the weak.Think back to how things where when the 19th century was just dawning in America. Back then the opportunity stood stark and clear to reverse the sick trends of the so-called "enlightenment". The victorious Revolutionary war soldiers had expelled English decadence from the continent. The frontier lay open, and a rough spirit of of individualism reigned supreme throughout the new-born nation. Aaron Burr knew this when he set out to seize new territories beyond the original 13 colonies. His dream was that of all natural males - to dominate, to conquer, to win an empire!What would the world have been like if he had won? Could he have prevented the rise of those twin obscenities, socialism and capitalism? Who can tell? I will tell you though, what I believe. I believe the Era of Greatness was at hand, ready to be born!But Burr was brought down before he could accomplish much more than the punishment of that tool of traitors, Alexander Hamilton. Superficially, his chief foe would seem to have been Jefferson, the conniver who robbed him of his Presidency. But in fact the conspiracy went far, far deeper than that.That evil genius, Benjamin Franklin, was at the heart of it- that cabal to kill the Empire before it could be born. His instruments were many, too many even for a man as strong as Burr to fight.And the chiefest of these instruments was the Order of Cincinnatus........
>>24689477>where did the idea about Aaron Burr come from?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_conspiracy
Look up the Burr Conspiracy
>>24689477>where did the idea about Aaron Burr come from?Gore Vidal wrote a series of historical novels, starting with Burr, about an alternative view of American history.
>>24689477Not really a book but more of a concept in American history called the Frontier Thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner.
