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Title:Empire (Narratives of Empire #4)
Author:Gore Vidal
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 480 pages
Published:June 12th 1988 by Ballantine Books (first published May 12th 1987)
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Literature. North American Hi.... American History
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Empire (Narratives of Empire #4) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 480 pages
Rating: 3.85 | 1977 Users | 116 Reviews

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We should stop going around babbling about how we’re the greatest democracy on earth, when we’re not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic. The founding fathers hated two things, one was monarchy and the other was democracy, they gave us a constitution that saw to it we will have neither. I don’t know how wise they were.

Gore Vidal


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Original Title: Empire
ISBN: 0345354729 (ISBN13: 9780345354723)
Edition Language: English
Series: Narratives of Empire #4


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This was an interesting parallel with some of the current discussions on Empire and Americas role in the world. Those damn Philippines could never govern themselves! We cant pull out! If we pull out of the Philippines now there will be horrors....no tradition of democracyDefinitely a long read, but important....it shows much of the early debate over empire which took place in this country founded with anti-imperialistic ideals at its core....interesting for today cuz the discussion is still

This is a very interesting book if you've always wanted to laugh at Teddy Roosevelt or you're interested in the media. Having read Lincoln, it's nice to see John Hay again, back as a lead, and the new heroine is also engaging. The story wanders around more than in Lincoln, balancing among old money, politics and journalism, which is educational but harder to follow.

Not quite as gripping as Lincoln, but then what could be? This account of the birth of the American Empire makes for fascinating reading, particularly for those interested in the characters of Teddy Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and Henry Adams. However, the heroine, Caroline Sanford, struck me as anachronistic. It's hard to imagine that a woman in the 1890s would've been, as she is portrayed, a successful newspaper publisher. But it's a good read, nevertheless.

I have to apologize to Gore Vidal... I got about 250 pages in, let's say halfway through, and I had to tap out. I give up. I cannot hang. I got that sinking feeling about 25 pages in that I had made a terrible book selection. Chapter 1 was a nightmare - a modern day reimagining of Victorian drawing room literature. Deadly boring. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 were not much better.The characters were dull. The intrigue not at all intriguing. As he did with Lincoln, Vidal gives us outside views of the

Fantastic novel. May be my favorite of all Vidal's historical fiction. Vidal is wickedly funny while describing historical events with his keen insight.

The book Empire focuses on the periods of time when McKinley was President and then Theodore Roosevelt. As usual, Vidal does a great job in writing a historical novel. He does a particularly good job in presenting the viewpoint of the female protagonist, who decides to publish a newspaper in Washington D.C. and get access to power through that medium. She is socially connected to the power brokers and we get inside information on what goes on behind closed doors. We see how corruption was

DNF. I've tried over the years to read Vidal's work, thinking each time maybe THIS would be the time I'd be able to get into him. But each time the overwhelmingly boring writing style deterred me. I decided to give ol' Vidal another shot because out of all his books, this one is the one that sounded most intriguing.And I was wrong. Too many characters drowned the storyline from the start. I had a hard time keeping track of them all and why they were essential to the plot at that point. Vidal