Library stamp & pocket intact FLEP, else content appears as unblemished with very good dark blue/gold gilt, cloth covered boards DJ & vinyl protector, displaying minimal surface/edge wear, as shown Library stamp on text block, Perceivable tilt.The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year.-Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. This was the Gilded Age, when robber barons held the purse strings of the nation, and the party in power was… Published in the Bicentennial Year, '1876' recreates the Centennial Year, which was 'celebrated with great fanfare and the most under-handed political machination in the country's history: The theft of the Presidency from Samuel Tilden by Rutherford B. Vidal's unblinking and penetrating vision throughout the entire cycle is the transformation of his beloved country from a struggling, proud, and independent Republic to a world power and out-of-control Empire. The novels, in historical order, are: 'Burr', 'Lincoln', '1876', 'Empire', 'Washington, DC', 'Hollywood', and 'The Golden Age'. Part of a grand vision of American history 'from above', a multi-volume project that took the better part of forty years. Other than rubber stamp on end page this is an unmarked copy- DJ shows wear and tear- Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued.' Presents Gore Vidal's '1876'.

1876 by Gore Vidal