Empire: A Novel - Rilegato

Vidal, Gore

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ISBN 10: 0679602933 ISBN 13: 9780679602934

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 1998

Riassunto

A historical novel with portraits of Teddy Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and their contemporaries illuminates Roosevelt's Washington, America's Gilded Age, and the expanding American empire.

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Empire, the fourth novel in Gore Vidal's monumental six-volume chronicle of the American past, is his prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century as it begins to emerge as a world power.
------While America struggles to define its destiny, beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate. One of Vidal's most in-spired creations, she is an embodiment of the complex, vigorous young nation. From the back offices of her Washington newspaper, Caroline confronts the two men who threaten to thwart her ambition: William Randolph Hearst and his protégé, Blaise Sanford, Caroline's half brother. In their struggles for power the lives of brother and sister become intertwined with those of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, as well as Astors, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys--all incarnations of America's Gilded Age.
------"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insi

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Book by Vidal Gore

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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679602933
• ISBN 13: 9780679602934
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 651