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Texas

Julian 

#paperback #fiction #historical #historicalfiction #firstedition copyright 1976           The country reels from the scandals of the Grant administration,the privileged wallow in gross luxury, and dark intrigues mark the presidential election in the centennial year. Charlie Schuyler,Arron Burr’s unacknowledged son, returns to the flamboyant America after his long,self-imposed,European exile.His finances depleted,but his literary reputation intact and his and his personal ambition grown massive,Schuyler hopes to arrange a suitable marriage for his beautiful,devoted daughter,a widowed princess.He plans to write about the Centennial celebration and the presidential election for the newspapers and to ingratiate himself with the favored candidate, Samuel Tilden.Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power in an astonishing year of fading ideas and growing empire. 

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Florida

A novel 

1876 

 #gorevidal #hardcover #history #nonfiction #politics

California

The Golden Ageis the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War. The historical novel is once again in vogue, and Gore Vidal stands as its undisputed American master. In his six previous narratives of the American empire-Burr, Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C.-he has created a fictional portrait of our nation from its founding that is unmatched in our literature for its scope, intimacy, political intelligence, and eloquence. Each has been a major bestseller, and some have stirred controversy for their decidedly ironic and unillusioned view of the realities of American power and of the men and women who have exercised that power. The Golden Ageis Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War Two 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, Washington, D.C., newspaper publisher turned Hollywood pioneer producer-star, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The American Idea. They experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin Roosevelt to bring a reluctant nation into World War Two, and later, the actions of Harry Truman that commit the nation to a decades-long twilight struggle against Communism-developments they regard with a marked skepticism, even though they end in an American global empire. The locus of these events is Washington, D.C., yet the Hollywood film industry and the cultural centers of New York also play significant parts. In addition to presidents, the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages ofThe Golden Ageinclude Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell-and Gore Vidal himself. The Golden Ageoffers up United States history as only Gore Vidal can, with unrivaled penetration, wit, and high drama, allied to a classical view of human fate. It is a supreme entertainment that will also change readers' understanding of American history and power.

The Golden Age

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A Novel

The character of President Lincoln, unremittingly tested by the trials of the war years, is reflected through the eyes of the diverse and colorful denizens of Washington, including his wife Mary and his political rivals and disciples, in a fictional portrait of America's sixteenth president. Reprint.

Lincoln

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condition representative of age, cover has had major repair, discolored pages

Kalki

New York

Reflections Upon A Sinking Ship

#paperback #historicalfiction #burr #fiction #gorevidal #americans 


Burr

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#fiction #paperback #historical this best seller paints a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr,who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful of the founding fathers. A fictional memoir based on actual facts.BURR describes the early struggles and endless intrigues of the United States.Vidal writes with so much drama and vigor that history comes alive,and the concerns of a new nation read like today’s headlines. First Ballantine Books edition Sept 1982

BURR

A Search for the King

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Maryland

Washington, D.C.

#contemporaryliterature #lgbtq #gay #lesbian #comingofage #classic #paperback 

Missouri

The City And The Pillar

The cover is a bit beat up but the inside is very good. 

The Judgement of Paris

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Julian; Williwaw; The Judgement of Paris; Messiah; The City; The Pillar

Selected Works of Gore Vidal

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Rhode Island

Julian

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.

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Creation

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#hardcover #fiction #myths #mythology #Hindu #mystery #adventure #fantasy

Minnesota

Teddy Ottinger, journalist and the world's foremost woman pilot, journey's to Katmandu to investigate the claims of an ex-G.I. named Kelly who has presented himself as the Hindu god Kalki and announced the destruction of mankind

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#hardcover #politicalfiction #gorevidal #1896  1987 first edition 

An historical novel with portraits of Teddy Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and others, this story illuminates Roosevelt's Washington, America's Gilded Age, and the expanding American empire

Empire

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Pocket paperback, 431 pages.- Vintage, used, Although cover shows wear and tear, book is intact, tight and very readable.- The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor, who famouy tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Greatas one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genious on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshiping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thrity-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign.

Massachusetts

Essays 1973–1976

Matters of Fact and of Fiction

Louisiana

Dust jacket shows wear. Page edges dirty but still in good condition. #fiction

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Georgia

Washington DC

Vintage copy of Vidal’s bestseller published by Bantam Books circa 1968#fiction #paperback #fiction #gorevidal #cultclassic

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