![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, most of the characters in this novel are nonfiction and historic. In this tome, the descendants of Charles Schuyler, the fictitious main character of Burr and 1876, continue the American saga of empire building. Following the events leading up to and following the ascension of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency following William McKinley's assassination, it includes pithy portraits of such leading public figures of the day as Roosevelt, Hearst, Henry Brooks Adams, Henry James, Secretary of State John Hay and President William McKinley. Gore Vidal Burr Narratives of Empire (Series) Gore Vidal Author (2011) Lincoln Narratives of Empire (Series) Gore Vidal Author (2011) Empire Narratives. The Golden Age is Vidals crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. As with Vidal's other books in his Narratives of Empire series, this novel offers an insight into the journalism of the time, following the exploits of William Randolph Hearst in his efforts to displace Theodore Roosevelt as president in 1904. Playing these characters against real-life figures of the years 1898 to 1907, the novel portrays the conjunction of government and mass media in the creation of modern-day America. The novel concerns the fictional newspaper dynasty of half-sibling characters Caroline and Blaise Sanford. ![]() ![]() Empire is the fourth historical novel in the Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal, published in 1987. ![]()
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