1876 : A Novel
1876 : A Novel (American Chronicle) GORE VIDAL
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375708723
Edition: Paperback; 2000-02-15
Summary:
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the
United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years.
With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical
characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the
American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of
its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.The centennial of the
United States was celebrated with great fanfare--fireworks,
exhibitions, pious calls to patriotism, and perhaps the most
underhanded political machination in the country's history: the theft
of the presidency from Samuel Tilden in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes.
This was the Gilded Age, when robber barons held the purse strings of
the nation, and the party in power was determined to stay in power.
Gore Vidal's 1876 gives us the news of the day through the eyes of
Charlie Schuyler, who has returned from exile to regain a lost
fortune and arrange a marriage into New York society for his widowed
daughter. And although Tammany Hall has faltered and Boss Tweed has
fled, the effects of corruption reach deep, even into Schuyler's own
family.
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