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by Gore Vidal
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Centennial spectacle, corruption, and a contested presidency

Gore Vidal revisits America’s Gilded Age through Charlie Schuyler, an exile seeking his lost fortune and his daughter’s social ascent. Political corruption and family ambition converge amid the disputed 1876 election.

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1876

by Gore Vidal
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ISBN: 9780375708725
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2000-02-15
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

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The centennial of the United States was celebrated with great fanfare—fireworks, exhibitions, pious calls to patriotism, and perhaps the most underhanded political machination in the country's history: the theft of the presidency from Samuel Tilden in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. This was the Gilded Age, when robber barons held the purse strings of the nation, and the party in power was determined to stay in power. Gore Vidal's novel 1876 gives us the news of the day through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler, who has returned from exile to regain a lost fortune and arrange a marriage into New York society for his widowed daughter. And although Tammany Hall has faltered and Boss Tweed has fled, the effects of corruption reach deep, even into Schuyler's own family.Author: Gore Vidal
 

Centennial spectacle, corruption, and a contested presidency

Gore Vidal revisits America’s Gilded Age through Charlie Schuyler, an exile seeking his lost fortune and his daughter’s social ascent. Political corruption and family ambition converge amid the disputed 1876 election.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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