In the series, Vidal offers works of historical fiction that reinterpret American history starting from the American Revolution and spanning past World War II. The novel is part of Gore Vidal’s ‘Narratives of Empire’ series and joins his other works Burr (1973), 1876 (1976) and Washington D.C. He draws from contemporary diaries, memoirs, letters, newspaper accounts, the biographical writings of John Hay and John Nicolay (Lincoln's secretaries), and the work of modern historians. Though Lincoln is the focus, the book is never narrated from his point of view (with the exception of several paragraphs describing a dream Lincoln had shortly before his death) Vidal instead writes from the perspective of key historical figures. Rather than focus on the Civil War itself, the novel is centred on Lincoln's political and personal struggles. The novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and extends from the start of the American Civil War until his assassination. The world money center shifted from London to New York in 1914 when the U.S.Lincoln: A Novel is a 1984 historical novel, part of the Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal. empire rested on economic, not military, foundations, Vidal writes. 16, 1985 when the Commerce Department declared that the United States had become a debtor nation because the U.S.
The 71-year-old American Empire ended Sept. In this essay written before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Vidal calls upon the United States and the USSR to "make common cause" and present a unified front against the emergence of "the Sino-Japanese axis that will dominate the future just as Japan dominates world trade today." The combination of the Soviet landmass with its natural resources and America with its technological know-how would not only benefit both societies, but the world, Vidal asserts. "The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas" (1986) Summary and Analysis
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