With characteristic wit and insight, Vidal chronicles life in the nation's capital at a time when these men and others transformed America into 'possibly the last empire on earth. It traces the fortunes of James Burden Day, a powerful conservative senator who is eyeing the presidency Clay Overbury, a pragmatic young congressional aide with political aspirations of his own and Blaise Sanford, a ruthless newspaper tycoon who understands the importance of money and image in modern politics. is a stunning tale of corruption and diseased ambitions. Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate in it, Washington, D.C. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire, his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past.

There are numerous things to do in Washington DC that aren’t related to the administration such as taking in a musical at the National Theatre with tickets available at Cheapo Ticketing. Ernest Wharton, by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent. Although it’s impossible to ignore, USA’s capital is about much more than simply politicians. Octavo VG-/G pp 377 black spine with gilt, gray and white text. In 1960, Vidal was the Democratic candidate for Congress for the 29th Congressional District of New York, a usually Republican district that including most of the Catskills and the western bank of the Hudson River, including Newburgh, but lost to the Republican candidate J. Please see our guide to book conditions for more details. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.

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