Aaron Burr was Thomas Jefferson's vice president, Alexander Hamilton's killer, and the defendant in the most sensational treason trial in the young republic's history. He was brilliant, charming, and so consistently untrustworthy that even his allies never turned their backs on him. The man Hamilton called "the most dangerous man in America" shot Hamilton dead and then tried to carve his own empire out of the American West.

This episode traces Burr from his Princeton education through his Revolutionary War service, the tied election of 1800, the duel at Weehawken, and the treason trial that somehow ended in acquittal.

• Burr's privileged upbringing, Princeton education, and Revolutionary War heroism
• The tied 1800 election and the deal-making that made Jefferson president and Burr vice president
• The duel with Hamilto ...