Narratives of Empire Series by Gore Vidal

3.89 · 108 ratings
  • Burr (Narratives of Empire #1)
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    Burr (Narratives of Empire #1)

    Gore Vidal

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1973

    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. Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers... more

  • Lincoln (Narratives of Empire #2)
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    Lincoln (Narratives of Empire #2)

    Gore Vidal

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1984

    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.To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all... more

  • 1876 (Narratives of Empire #3)
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    1876 (Narratives of Empire #3)

    Gore Vidal

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1976

    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... more

  • Empire (Narratives of Empire #4)
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    Empire (Narratives of Empire #4)

    Gore Vidal

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1987

    In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age—a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries... more

  • Hollywood (Narratives of Empire #5)
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    Hollywood (Narratives of Empire #5)

    Gore Vidal

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1989

    Hollywood marks the 5th episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the USA.It's 1917. President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America... more

  • Washington, D.C. (Narratives of Empire #6)
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    Washington, D.C. (Narratives of Empire #6)

    Gore Vidal

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1967

    Washington, D.C., is the sixth installment in Gore Vidal's acclaimed seven-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCarthy era.Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate in it, Washington, D.C. is a stunning tale of corruption and diseased ambitions... more

  • The Golden Age (Narratives of Empire #7)
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    The Golden Age (Narratives of Empire #7)

    Gore Vidal

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2000

    The Golden Age is Vidal's 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. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C... more

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