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Historical person
1801–1872
William H. Seward was an American antislavery politician and secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He helped manage Union diplomacy during the Civil War, survived an assassination attempt and negotiated the purchase of Alaska.
Series
Gore Vidal’s seven-volume Narratives of Empire sequence follows the United States from the revolutionary generation to the Cold War, combining the lives of the fictional Schuyler, Sanford and Day families with presidents, senators, journalists and political operators. The novels treat public history as a contest over power, reputation…
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