Empire (1987 novel)

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Empire is a historical novel by Gore Vidal, published in 1987.

One of Vidal's most rousing and comprehensive novels concerns the fictional newspaper dynasty of his half-sibling characters Caroline and Blaise Sanford. Playing these characters against real-life figures of the years 1898 to 1904, the novel portrays the conjunction of government and media in the creation of modern-day America. As with Vidal's other books of the American Chronicle series, the novel offers an insight into the journalism of the time, following the exploits of William Randolph Hearst in his efforts to displace Roosevelt as President in 1904. Following the events leading up to and following the ascension of Theodore Roosevelt to the Presidency, it includes pithy portraits of such leading public figures of the day as Roosevelt, Hearst, Henry Adams, Henry James, and John Hay.


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