American chronicle (Gore Vidal)
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 1
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Re-creates the American political scene of the early 1800's, seen through the memoirs of Aaron Burr.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 2
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Orginally published in 1984, Vidal's novel of Lincoln's presidency allows the man to breathe again. As the Civil War ravages his nation, President Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections.-- from publisher's description.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 3
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On a desperate quest to find her father, a missing business tycoon, Ana, a beautiful heiress, ventures into the lush wilderness of the tropical rain forest, accompanied by rugged Brad Eliot, a handsome American working to save the endangered rain forests.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 4
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By 1900 America, now reaching out for empire, is racked by titanic struggles over its own destiny. The novel re-creates a time that woud be remembered as America's Gilded Age: where political bosses rule, where robber barons fight to consolidate their wealth, and where a yellow headline can lead the country to war.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 5
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Follows the career of Caroline Sanford, a brilliant and beautiful newspaper publisher who leaves Washington to become a Hollywood producer and movie star.
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Washington, D. C. , American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 6
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 7
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"The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's American empire novels - a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.".
"The Golden Age is 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....