VIDAL, GORE — Empire

NY: Random House, 1987. 0385500750. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0385500750. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, blue endpapers. "Empire" is the fourth volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling "Narratives of the American Empire" series - Vidal's fictional portrait of turn-of-the-century America in the buoyant aftermath of the Spanish-American War, when Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst were vying for power and influence. In his seven narratives of the American empire - (1) Burr, (2) Lincoln, and (3) 1876, (4) Empire, (5) Hollywood, (6) Washington, D.C. and (7) The Golden Age - he has created a fictional portrait of our nation from its founding that is unmatched in our literature for its scope, intimacy, political intelligence, and eloquence. Each has been a major bestseller, and some have stirred controversy for their decidedly ironic and un-illusioned view of the realities of American power and of the men and women who have exercised it.. The volume is in excellent condition; unmarked, once-read, tight, square, and clean. The price-clipped dust jacket is in otherwise fine condition, with only the slightest shelf-wear. FINE/NEAR FINE. Narratives of the American Empire Series. Vol. 4. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. (vi), 486, (2) pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .