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1876
Gore Vidal
With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-08
Collection : Narratives of empire
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9,49 €
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Lincoln
Gore Vidal
In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-08
Collection : Narratives of empire
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9,49 €
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Burr
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton.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...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-08-08
Collection : Narratives of empire
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9,49 €
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Washington D C
Gore Vidal
History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick that Gore Vidal has mastered in his ongoing chronicle of that circus of opportunism and hypocrisy called American politics and which he...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-07-31
Collection : Narratives of empire
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Hollywood
Gore Vidal
Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-07-31
Collection : Narratives of empire
ePub

9,49 €