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Cronache dell'Impero Serie

Questa saga epica approfondisce l'ascesa e la caduta di un impero americano fittizio. Intreccia le vite private di due famiglie inventate con le carriere pubbliche di figure storiche ed eventi cruciali. La narrazione offre un'ampia esplorazione di ambizione, potere e dei paesaggi mutevoli di una nazione. Dall'alba fino al suo declino finale, fornisce una prospettiva avvincente e critica sulla traiettoria storica di un paese.

Washington, D. C.
Hollywood
Empire
1876
Lincoln
Burr

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    Burr

    • 576pagine
    • 21 ore di lettura
    4,1(8936)Aggiungi una valutazione

    Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. And he is determined to tell his own story. As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States.

    Burr
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    1876

    • 436pagine
    • 16 ore di lettura
    3,9(2906)Aggiungi una valutazione

    The third novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.

    1876
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    Empire

    • 592pagine
    • 21 ore di lettura
    3,9(2080)Aggiungi una valutazione

    The fourth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic CHRONICLES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.

    Empire
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    Hollywood

    • 502pagine
    • 18 ore di lettura
    3,7(1215)Aggiungi una valutazione

    The fifth novel in the chronology of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.

    Hollywood
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    Washington, D. C.

    3,8(1659)Aggiungi una valutazione

    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".

    Washington, D. C.
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