Narratives of Empire
Burr is the first in a series of novels in which Vidal follows generations of a fictional family through the history of the United States. The third book in the series, 1876, tells of Charlie Schuyler returning to the United States after having spent nearly forty years in Europe.
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“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)