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Empire: American Chronicle Series
By Vidal, Gore
Empire: American Chronicle Series
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Authors:
Vidal, Gore
Copyright:
1987
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9780375708749
ISBN10:
037570874X
Page Count:
496
Dimensions:
5.18x1.09x8.01
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Jacket Notes:
"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." --"The New York Times Book Review
In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age--a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and beathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their country, and some of the greatest names of their day, including President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys, Gore Vidal sweeps us from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a nation boldly reaching for the world.
In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age--a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and beathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their country, and some of the greatest names of their day, including President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys, Gore Vidal sweeps us from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a nation boldly reaching for the world.
"From the Paperback edition.
Strand Notes
(Narratives of Empire series). In 1898 the Spanish-AmericanWar has just ended, and America is about to enter the century. Teddy Roosevelt is the hero of San Juan Hill, and William Randolph Hearst is the master of Yellow Journalism. Into this world arrives Caroline Sanford, granddaughter of Charlie Schuyler, a female force as ambitious, strongwilled, and determined as the nation. She takes over a moribund Washington newspaper and turn it - and herself - into an influential player in the newly powerful press. Continuing his masterful melding of fiction and history, Gore Vidal gives readers a brilliant portrait of an age and the presonalities who made it.
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"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." --The New York Times Book Review In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age--a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and beathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their country, and some of the greatest names of their day, including President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys, Gore Vidal sweeps us from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a nation boldly reaching for the world.
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