Washington, D.C. (Modern Library)

Washington, D.C. (Modern Library)

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With a New Introduction<br><br><b>Washington, D.C.</b>, is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire,his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCar-thy era.<br><br>Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate in it, <b>Washington, D.C.</b> is a stunning tale of corruption and diseased ambitions. It traces the fortunes of James Burden Day, a powerful conservative senator who is eyeing the presidency; Clay Overbury, a pragmatic young congressional aide with political aspirations of his own; and Blaise Sanford, a ruthless newspaper tycoon who understands the importance of money and image in modern politics. With characteristic wit and insight, Vidal chronicles life in the nation's capital at a time when these men and others transformed America into "possibly the last empire on earth."<br><br>"<b>Washington, D.C.</b> may well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital," said <i>The New Yorker</i>, and the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> deemed it "a prodigiously skilled and clever performance."