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Slight bit of toning, else content appears as unread and unblemished with very good wraps displaying minimal surface/edge wear, as shown.Kirkus Review: Once again as in Burr (1973) Vidal centers on politics as the manifestation and shaper of American identity. Here he illuminates one of the nation's dark moments, the disputed TildenHayes election along with the centralizing drift of money, power and sectional interests toward the capital. Charlie Schuyler is again the journalist-narrator. As an admirer of the ailing Tilden, a scrupulous ascetic, Schuyler forgoes his detachment and reports the corrupt electoral tangles. While Tilden falls, notables in New York and Washington are observed: a smooth, intelligent Garfield (". . . when you are dealt the cards you play them"); a glum, bewildered Grant; a ""deceitful"" Senator Conkling ("Senate seats are expensive. . . It is all money nowadays"); and also that likable rake, James Bennett, Jr. of the Herald. While Schuyler lives…
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- Title 1876
- Author Gore Vidal
- Binding Paperback
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- Publisher Ballantine Books, New York, New York
- Date 1977
- ISBN 0345254007225
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1876: A Novel
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