At a mere two hundred thousand dollars the sec.
But it is his portrayal of President Grant, President Hayes, and Governor Tiden of NY who was literally robbed of the Presidency by the Republican party. His fictional characters, like Mr and Mrs Sanford are fascinating, and the character of Charles Schuyler and his daughter are great. You do not have to read them in order, actually the ones I have read were out of order, yet their impact was still great. Many of the fictional characters from the first two books have made it into the third, and many in the third have made it into the fourth, fifth, and sixth. “1876” is in a sense the third novel in the series that critics have come to name “Narratives of Empire.” The first was the one on Aaron Burr and the second on President Lincoln.
I also am confident that he would agree, but not agree totally with my assessment of the other great writers I mentioned.
What can I say, that I have not already said about Gore Vidal? He is undeniably one of the great American writers of the twentieth century, along with Toni Morrison, Capote, Hemingway, Faulker, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, O’Hare, and so on.
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