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. 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. 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. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. The two remained close throughout the years. Vidalâ s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife Valerie was born in 1946. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the "Valerie love Gore." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the authorâ s sister.
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