Empire: A Novel - Brossura

Vidal, Gore

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ISBN 10: 037570874X ISBN 13: 9780375708749

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

Riassunto

A richly detailed historical novel filled with such real-life characters as Teddy Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and others, this story illuminates Roosevelt's Washington, America's Gilded Age, and the expanding American empire. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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L'autore

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

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dal 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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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 037570874X
• ISBN 13: 9780375708749
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496