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Empire by Gore Vidal · Booklabria

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First published: 1987
Editions: 35 in 4 languages
Series: Narratives of Empire

Synopsis

Caroline Sanford, a newspaper owner from Washington, D.C., struggles to gain power and respect in a male dominated industry, in this prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States as it begins to emerge as a world power at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Subjects: History
Historical Fiction
Historical
Presidents
Washington
Newspaper publishing
Set in: United States
Washington
Time: 1901-1909
Characters: Theodore Roosevelt
Henry James
William McKinley
William Jennings Bryan
William Randolph Hearst

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35 in 4 languages

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English23 German1 Italian1 Russian1

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