Narratives of empire – serie

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1. 

   Lincoln

   Number 2 in series

   Av Gore Vidal

   Häftad, 1994

   195 kr

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   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 the man who led America …

2. 

   1876

   Number 3 in series

   Av Gore Vidal

   Häftad, 1994

   195 kr

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   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 parties, more corruption, and all the …

3. 

   Hollywood

   Number 5 in series

   Av Gore Vidal

   Häftad, 1994

   195 kr

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   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 this book. Caroline Sanford, …

4. 

   Washington D C

   Number 6 in series

   Av Gore Vidal

   Häftad, 1994

   195 kr

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   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 plays with renewed vigour in this …

5. 

   Empire

   Number 4 in series

   Av Gore Vidal

   Häftad, 1994

   220 kr

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   Here is the story of arguably America's finest hour; of the time when the twentieth century dawned, Queen Victoria died, and America, basking deliciously in excess wealth, rather thought it might snap up an empire of its own. Yet while politicians muse over the potential of China or the Philippines …

6. 

   Burr

   The Man Who Shot Hamilton

   Av Gore Vidal

   Häftad, 1994

   4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)

   195 kr

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   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 treason: for plotting to …

7. 

   Golden Age

   Number 7 in series

   Av Gore Vidal

   Häftad, 2001

   195 kr

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   THE GOLDEN AGE is the final, eponymous novel that brings to an end what Gabriel García Márquez has called 'Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels or novelised histories', NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE. Like a latter day Anthony Trollope, Vidal masterfully balances the personal with the …