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Titre: 1876 Condition: Neuf Sous titres: Number 3 in series Auteur: Gore Vidal Format: Poche ISBN-10: 0349105294 EAN: 9780349105291 ISBN: 9780349105291 Publisher: Abacus Genre: Fiction Sujet: Historical Fiction Date de publication: 1994-04-02 Description: 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. Sujet: Anglais Pays/Région de fabrication: GB Item Height: 198 Item Length: 126.00 Item Width: 30.00 Poids: 300g Série: Narratives of empire Année de publication: 1994 Information manquante?
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