EPISODE · Sep 17, 2019 · 23H 25M
Empire: A Novel [Written by Gore Vidal]
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369474 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire: A Novel Series: #4 of Narratives of Empire Author: Gore Vidal Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 17, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: While America struggles to define its destiny, beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate. One of Vidal’s most inspired creations, she is an embodiment of the complex, vigorous young nation. From the back offices of her Washington newspaper, Caroline confronts the two men who threaten to thwart her ambition: William Randolph Hearst and his protégé, Blaise Sanford, Caroline’s half brother. In their struggles for power the lives of brother and sister become intertwined with those of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, as well as Astors, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys—all incarnations of America’s Gilded Age. “Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider’s sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer. Like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama.” — The New York Times Book Review
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369474 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire: A Novel Series: #4 of Narratives of Empire Author: Gore Vidal Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 17, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: While America struggles to define its destiny, beautiful and ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate. One of Vidal’s most inspired creations, she is an embodiment of the complex, vigorous young nation. From the back offices of her Washington newspaper, Caroline confronts the two men who threaten to thwart her ambition: William Randolph Hearst and his protégé, Blaise Sanford, Caroline’s half brother. In their struggles for power the lives of brother and sister become intertwined with those of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, as well as Astors, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys—all incarnations of America’s Gilded Age. “Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider’s sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer. Like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama.” — The New York Times Book Review
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