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With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics. And this is politics as it ought to be: gossip, corruption, money, dinner parties, more corruption, and all the tacky panoply of power. Into the rarefied atmosphere of a world where money has begun to talk very loudly ? usually through the mouths of people called Astor ? step Charles Schuyler and his daughter Emma. Charlie is the unacknowledged bastard son of Aaron Burr; Emma is rather beautiful; and both think it is prudent to return from penury in Europe and secure a fortuitous marriage for Emma. But America is no longer a young republic; it's a fledgling international superpower with its attendant seedy administration, dubious election campaigns, snobbery, 'popped corn', 'speaking tubes' and 'perpendicular railways' (lifts). It's a world that will welcome into its social and political bosom these two attractive exotics with the right names. And it's a world whose every political peccadillo, social slip-up and irresistible intrigue is recorded in this, the journal of Charlie Schuyler.
| ISBN-13 | 9780349105291 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0349105294 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 4.96 x 1.18 x 7.80 In |
| List Price | $19.03 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 448 pages |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Published On | 1994-04-02 |
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