1876 : Number 3 in series
by
Gore Vidal
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Narratives of empire
ISBN-10
0349105294
ISBN-13
9780349105291
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint
Abacus
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 2nd, 1994
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
316 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 12.80 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Historical fiction
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* The third novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the tacky panoply of power. Into the rarefied atmosphere of a world where money has begun to talk very loudly ? usually through the mouths of people called Astor ? step Charles Schuyler and his daughter Emma. Charlie is the unacknowledged bastard son of Aaron Burr; Emma is rather beautiful; and both think it is prudent to return from penury in Europe and secure a fortuitous marriage for Emma. But America is no longer a young republic; it''s a fledgling international superpower with its attendant seedy administration, dubious election campaigns, snobbery, ''popped corn'', ''speaking tubes'' and ''perpendicular railways'' (lifts). It''s a world that will welcome into its social and political bosom these two attractive exotics with the right names. And it''s a world whose every political peccadillo, social slip-up and irresistible intrigue is recorded in this, the journal of Charlie Schuyler.
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