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Historical person
1838–1905
John Hay was an American diplomat and writer who began his public career as a secretary to Abraham Lincoln. He later served as secretary of state, promoting the Open Door policy in China and negotiating during the emergence of the United States as a global power.
In Gore Vidal’s Empire, William Randolph Hearst, John Hay, Henry Adams and Henry James move through the same world of publicity and private calculation.
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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