ISBN: 9780394497501 - 1876 (20 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. The centennial of the United States was celebrated with great fanfare--fireworks, exhibitions, pious calls to patriotism, and perhaps the most underhanded political machination in the country's history: the theft of the presidency from Samuel Tilden in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. This was the Gilded Age, when robber barons held the purse strings of the nation, and the party in power was determined to stay in power. Gore Vidal's 1876 gives us the news of the day through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler, who has returned from exile to regain a lost fortune and arrange a marriage into New York society for his widowed daughter. And although Tammany Hall has faltered and Boss Tweed has fled, the effects of corruption reach deep, even into Schuyler's own family.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dark blue cloth cover has light blue and gold stamp on face and spine. Bottom edge of boards has minor sunning and very slight edge wear. Previous owner's name elegantly written in the top corner of the front fly sheet, pages are clean, unmarked, and very firmly bound. The dust jacket has fraying and minor rips and wrinkles on top and bottom. This book is in very fine condition with a very good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFiction. Good clean copy no dust jacket. First Trade Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED* Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Later printing.

Hard cover wit. Zustand: Used: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDHistorical fiction; Good hardcover with dustjacket; dustjacket tip/edges bumped, sun damage to spine, few slight nicks and tears to edges dustjacket; spine starting to slant; some tanning; slight signs of use and wear; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Book club edition. 364pp. Fine in a very good dust jacket with fading on the spine, rubbing, and edgewear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Later printing. 364pp. Owner's name penned on front fly, boards bowed slightly, very good in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Fourth Printing. [10], 364, [10} pages. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing. He was born to a political family. He was a Democratic Party politician who twice sought elected office; first to the United States House of Representatives, then to the U.S. Senate. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer. As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His polished and erudite style of narration readily evoked the time and place of his stories, and perceptively delineated the psychology of his characters. Vidal re-created in Julian the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361-63), the Roman emperor who used general religious toleration to re-establish pagan polytheism to counter the political subversion of Christian monotheism. Myra Breckinridge explores the mutability of gender role and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores. 1876 is the third historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. It was published in 1976 and details the events of a year described by Vidal himself as "probably the low point in our republic's history." The novel is written in the form of a journal written by Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler who has recently returned to the United States after more than 30 years in Europe, where he married into minor Napoleonic nobility; he is accompanied by his beautiful young widowed daughter Emma, the Princesse d'Agrigente, who immediately becomes the darling of New York high society. Despite his fame and affluent image, Schuyler finds work as a journalist because his wealth has been destroyed by the 1873 monetary crisis and his daughter's late husband has left her penniless. Schuyler also supports the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York, because he hopes to secure himself a diplomatic position with the incoming administration that will enable him to return to Europe. The early chapters detail the Schuylers' introduction into New York society and the engagement between Emma and John Day Apgar, a wealthy but rather dull young lawyer and scion of a leading New York family. The later chapters chronicle Schuyler's sojourn in Washington, DC and Emma's growing friendship with the wealthy Denise Sanford and her boorish husband William. Emma and Denise become close friends, but after Denise dies in childbirth Emma breaks off her engagement to Apgar and marries Sanford instead. The political backdrop to the story is the 1876 presidential election, a close run contest between Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. Tilden won the popular vote, but there was a dispute over the results in four states, which were Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina and Florida. In Florida, the Republican leaders of the State and the Electoral Commission initially reported a victory for Tilden, before deciding that in fact Hayes had won. Vidal builds up to this historic crisis through the activities of a mixed cast of historical and fictional characters, some of the latter having previously appeared in Burr, or having descended from characters in that novel.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. Reprint. VG/VG+. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked, corner of FFE clipped) in unpriced dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & sunned); pp. [viii (last blank)], 366 (last blank). Presumed Book Club Issue. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 364 pages. First edition, first printing. The third book in his "Narratives of Empire" series. Signed by Vidal on the title page. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with the only flaw being its price clipped. A beautiful copy. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Near Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked else very good in an about near fine dustwrapper with some toning and wear on the spine ends. Signed by the author.