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Historical person
1808–1873
Salmon P. Chase was an American antislavery politician and secretary of the treasury during the Civil War. He financed the Union war effort through taxation, national banking and paper currency, later serving as chief justice of the United States.
In Gore Vidal’s Lincoln, Vidal follows the new administration through the competing perspectives of Mary Todd Lincoln, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, John Hay and other figures around the White House.
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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