Garfield, Mark Twain, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Madame Restell, Ward McAllisterĬharlie Schuyler, Emma Schuyler d'Agrigente, John Day Apgar, William Sanford, Denise Delacroix Sanford, William de la Touche Clancey.Ī circle of political intellectuals and enterprising newspaper editors learn of the power they wield as they both push for and chronicle the growth of the American Empire at the turn of the 20th Century William Sanford, Charlie Schuyler, Emma Schuyler d'Agrigente, William de la Touche ClanceyĪfter forty years abroad, an American writer returns to the US during the Reconstruction Era to find New York and Washington transformed by recession, extreme wealth and political corruption, all culminating in the theft of the 1876 United States presidential election. Chase, David Herold, Mary Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, Kate Chase, William Sprague Members of President Abraham Lincoln's government and household help to carry out his policy of preserving the Union through a dreadful and bloody Civil War.Ībraham Lincoln, John Hay, John Nicolay, Elihu Washburne, Mary Todd Lincoln, William Seward, Salmon P. Set during the politically contentious era of the Jackson administration, an elderly and active Aaron Burr recounts his experiences of the Revolutionary War and America's Founding Fathers to a young law clerk secretly working for the press.Īaron Burr, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Dolley Madison, James Monroe, Alexander McDougall, Davy Crockett, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, William Leggett, Helen Jewett, William Cullen Bryant, Samuel Swartwout, Jane McManus Storm Edwin Forrest, Washington IrvingĬharlie Schuyler, Carolina de Traxler, William de la Touche Clancey The seven novels can be read in either historical or publication order without losing narrative intelligibility. Despite the publisher's preference for the politically neutral series-title 'American Chronicles', Vidal preferred the series title 'Narratives of Empire'.

The Narratives of Empire series is a heptalogy of historical novels by Gore Vidal, published between 19, which chronicle the dawn-to-decadence history of the ' American Empire' the narratives interweave the personal stories of two families with the personages and events of U.S. Series of historical novels by Gore Vidal

Gore vidal empire series in order