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Historical person
1843–1901
William McKinley was the twenty-fifth president of the United States. His presidency included the Spanish-American War, annexation of overseas territories and the Philippine-American War before his assassination in 1901.
Gore Vidal’s Empire is set against at the turn of the twentieth century, Caroline Sanford and her half-brother Blaise inherit competing interests in a newspaper dynasty and discover that control of information can be converted into political power.
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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