2006 Scholar's Bookshelf Reprint edition of the first thorough study of Wilkinson's controversial life and career whichlasted some forty years up to the end of the War of1812. First published in 1941, the work attempted todiscover the truth about Wilkinson's propensity forintrigue and many questionable activities involvingbusiness associates, government officials, andmilitary colleagues, his contradictory and egotisticalcharacter and, of course, his involvement with theBurr conspiracy.