Gore Vidal's Burr is available to purchase through Amazon and various other booksellers. [poilib element="accentDivider"] We've all heard the old chestnut about those who don't know history being doomed to repeat it. Well, the problem is that in schools in many countries the past is whitewashed, simplified, sanitized and condensed to become just a series of meaningless dates to be memorized one week and forgotten the next.