
1876: A Novel
Narratives of Empire, Book 3
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Grover Gardner
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By:
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Gore Vidal
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. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire.
"A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. "Vidal can take history and make it powerful and astonishing." Time concurred: "Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past."
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Wonderful characters!
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Gore and Grover Deliver
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Mr.Vidal is an exceptional historical fiction novelists. His created characters blend in seamlessly with historical figures. His writing style is imbued with sarcasm and irony which makes potentially dry events alive, enlightening, and entertaining.
The narrator seemed to capture the writer’s voice accurately and made the many hours of listening enjoyable.
Written in 1975 about 1876 it’s prescient
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Fictional look at the True Soul of Government
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I have never hated such well written characters
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On the other hand, it’s a story of political corruption at the highest level, very reminiscent of today. It’s striking to listen to the parallels between the news of today and from 1876.
As always, Vidal’s writing is pleasing to follow. The performer did a wonderful job, particularly with all the accents. He played his part well.
Weak as a stand alone, but worthwhile.
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1876 covers,for me and I would say for most readers, the lesser known events of that centennial year, including the hotly contested election (the winner of the popular vote doesn’t win the Electoral College and so the election becomes contentious and dependent on — what?! — Florida?!). So while I didn’t catch all the nuances and subtle attacks on various historic persons, it was still a wonderful way to spend several hours
Perhaps not as stellar as Burr but still worth your time
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Not great yet very very good
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This is not a great book and it is also far from being the author's best work. However it does have some interesting points to make about a time in American history now largely forgotten and it is easy to spend time with as it does so. As with the two earlier books in this series, the reading by Grover Gardner could not be better.
Truth is the necessary casualty
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Superb Historical Fiction
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