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1876 by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle
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 experienc ...Show more
Burr by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: Narratives of Empire
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American hist ...Show more
Burr by Gore Vidal
Category: History | Series: Narratives of Empire
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American hist ...Show more
Burr by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle
For readers who can't get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal's stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel--and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the m ...Show more
Creation by Gore Vidal
Category: History | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history--this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C.--and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights and piercing observations. Includes a new Preface by the author. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Creation by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction
Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.
Empire by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction
"Mr. Vidal 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 ep ...Show more
Empire (#4/#5 Narratives of Empire) by Gore Vidal
Category: History
The fourth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
Empire - a novel by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle / Narratives of Empire
"Mr. Vidal 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 ...Show more
Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
Category: Biography
"My Life in Pictures" is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his famously well-lived life, illustrated with photographs, letters, manuscripts and other ephemera from his vast personal archive accompanied by text filled with his legendary charm and sharp wit. "My Life in Pictures" is Gore Vidal's visual memoir ...Show more
Hollywood by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: American Chronicle
"Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating." --"Chicago Tribune" In his brilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one of the most fascinating periods of American political and social change. The time is 1917. In Washington, President ...Show more
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener by Gore Vidal
Category: Politics
"I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is, ' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there's a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there's a hole in the road and if you don't fill it in you'll break the axle ...Show more