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作者:Gore Vidal 著出版社:Random House US出版时间:2011年11月
- 版 次:1
- 页 数:364
- 字 数:
- 印刷时间:2011年11月01日
- 开 本:32开
- 纸 张:胶版纸
- 包 装:平装
- 是否套装:否
- 国际标准书号ISBN:9780375708725
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 experience as interpreted by
one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
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. Hayes. 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. Gore Vidal's 1876 gives us the news of
the day through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler, who has returned from
exile to regain a lost fortune and arrange a marriage into New York
society for his widowed daughter. And although Tammany Hall has
faltered and Boss Tweed has fled, the effects of corruption reach
deep, even into Schuyler's own family.