Román mapující poměrně přesně boj o nezávislost a první roky USA. Aaron Burr byl viceprezident v prvním volebním období Thomase Jeffersona a hrdina boje za nezávislost. Zajímavý pohled na vznik USA.
Příběhy Impéria Série
Tato epická sága se ponořuje do vzestupu a pádu fiktivního amerického impéria. Proplétá osudy dvou vymyslených rodin s významnými historickými postavami a událostmi. Autor poutavě zkoumá soukromé životy a veřejné ambice formující národ. Od počátků po úpadek nabízí provokativní pohled na americkou historii.
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Lincoln
- 657 stránek
- 23 hodin čtení
"The portrait is reasoned, judicious, straightforward and utterly convincing." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In this profoundly moving work of epic proportion and intense human sympathy, Abraham Lincoln is observed by his loved ones, his rivals, and his future assassins. In this brilliantly realized, vividly imagined work of fiction, Gore Vidal gives us a portrait of America's great president that is at once intimate and public, stark and complex, and that will become for future generations the living Lincoln, the definitive Lincoln. "Richly entertaining....For the general reader the elegant explication of the issues of the day gives hearty satisfaction: history lessons with the blood still hot." THE WASHINGTON POST
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1876
- 436 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
The third novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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Empire
- 592 stránek
- 21 hodin čtení
The fourth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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Hollywood
- 502 stránek
- 18 hodin čtení
The fifth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.
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This stunning and illuminating portrait of national politics from the New Deal to the McCarthy era superbly blends historical figures with fictional characters. We follow the lives of Blaise Sanford, the ruthless Washington newspaper tycoon; his son, Peter, a liberal editor both fascinated and repelled by the imperial city; Peter's beautiful and self-destructive sister Enid; her husband, Clay Overbury, a charismatic and ambitious politician; and James Burden Day, the powerful conservative senator. With characteristic wit and insight, Vidal chronicles life in the nation's capital at a time when these men and others transformed America into "possibly the last empire on earth".
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The Golden Age
- 467 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history. schovat popis
