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1876 Gore Vidal
Ballantine Books 2/12/1977 0345254007 / 9780345254009 Mass Market Paperback Used: Like New Mass Market Paperback
2nd printing March 1977. Book is slightly crooked and has tanning pages. Your Satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed!The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year.
------Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire.
------"A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. "Vidal can take history and make it powerful and astonishing." Time concurred: "Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past."
------With a new Introduction by the author.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Hollywood Gore Vidal
Ballantine Books 1/14/1991 0345370139 / 9780345370136 Mass Market Paperback Like New Mass Market Paperback
Some are new books that are dinged, dented, creased, marked or marred in some way. Others are just very, very gently read used books. Your Satisfaction is 100% Guaranteed!
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