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Historical person
1822–1893
Rutherford B. Hayes was the nineteenth president of the United States. He entered office after the disputed election of 1876 and the political settlement that ended federal military enforcement of Reconstruction in the South.
In Gore Vidal’s 1876, Written as Charles’s journal, the novel builds towards the disputed presidential election between Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes. John Jakes’s The Lawless places Rutherford B. Hayes within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and political ambition and government.
Historical context
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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The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…
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