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Historical person
1830–1893
James G. Blaine was an American Republican politician who served as speaker of the House, senator and secretary of state. A major presidential contender in the Gilded Age, he promoted commercial expansion and closer relations across the Western Hemisphere but lost the disputed and bitter election of 1884.
Gore Vidal’s 1876 places James G. Blaine within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and court politics and dynastic 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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