01553cam a2200313 4500 51591399 TxAuBib 20090727120000.0 751021s1976||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780394497501 0394497503 (OCoLC)1859740 TxAuBib Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012. 1876 : a narratives of empire novel, book 3 / Gore Vidal. Eighteen seventy-six. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1976. 364 p. ; 25 cm. Narratives of Empire series, the ; 3 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. 20090727. American fiction. United States History 1865-1898 Fiction. Washington (D.C) Fiction. Historical fiction. the Narratives of Empire series ; 3. TXDRI