1876
Subtitle: a novel
By: Gore Vidal.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Other titles: Eighteen seventy-six.
Description: The third volume of Gore Vidal's series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 explores the political scandals of the Grant administration and the intrigues of that year's presidential election. Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to America after his self-imposed exile, hoping to arrange a marriage for his daughter Emma, but the two 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.