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1876
Gore Vidal
Literature
James Mustich
Nov 19, 2020
Here's what I wrote about this entertaining novel in the November 3, 2020 entry for the 1,000 Books Page-A-Day calendar: "If you’re uneasy about the security of our elective processes as you cast your vote today, escape into the corridors of the past, where things were—well, to be honest, just as shaky. In 1876, a stand-alone novel in his Narratives of Empire series, Gore Vidal vividly depicts the social and political world of America in its centennial year, when New York’s governor Samuel Tilden, favored to win the presidency, has victory snatched from him in what would remain, until the year 2000, the most disputed election in American history." I think I'll have to change that last sentence pretty soon.
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Eli
Jan 29
Must read!
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