A handsome brown leather First Edition 1987 (so stated) signed by the author on the signature page. Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age, a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their country, and some of the greatest names of their day, including President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys. Vidal sweeps us from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a nation boldly reaching for the world. A significant book by one of America's best masters of the American historical novel, this is the fourth in Vidal's series "Narratives of Empire" series, or as his publishers' preferred, "The American Chronicles Series." The earlier historical novels in the series included "Burr," "Lincoln," and "1876". Includes six pages of black & white photographs. Gilt embossed, bound in Fine Genuine brown leather - 22kt gold-stamped spine accents, distinctive raised spine hubs, specially milled acid-neutral paper, Smyth-sewn pages, gilded page edges. Permanent satin ribbon page-marker. Signed by author. Rare book sells:
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