Washington, D.C: A Novel (Narratives of Empire).
"A superb story. . . . Vidal's people are per-suasive, and he handles the interplay of per-sonality and power with rare skill. . . . Fascinating."--John Kenneth Galbraith"        Vidal is the best political novelist since Disraeli. . . . [His] highly polished prose style, in part the fruit of his classical training, is a constant delight. One might even go so far as to call him a modern La Rochefoucauld."--Louis Auchincloss"        Washington to Vidal is like some Jacobean court, a city where even the smallest movement is in-teresting and dangerous, and where strokes and suicide have taken the place of poison."--Times Literary SupplementAlso available from the Modern Library:Burr  ¸  Lincoln  ¸  1876  ¸Empire  ¸  Hollywood