
David Frum @davidfrum
Thing I just learned from Linda Colley's "The Gun, The Ship, and the Pen." When Aaron Burr stayed as a houseguest of Jeremy Bentham's after fleeing the US in 1808, he brought his host as a thank-you gift ... a bound copy of Hamilton's "Federalist Papers." https://t.co/360B22zUfz — PolitiTweet.org