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Historical person
1843–1916
Henry James was an American-born novelist who spent much of his adult life in Europe. His fiction explores encounters between Americans and Europeans, private consciousness, money, marriage and the moral ambiguities of cosmopolitan society.
In Gore Vidal’s Empire, William Randolph Hearst, John Hay, Henry Adams and Henry James move through the same world of publicity and private calculation.
Series
Gore Vidal’s seven-volume Narratives of Empire sequence follows the United States from the revolutionary generation to the Cold War, combining the lives of the fictional Schuyler, Sanford and Day families with presidents, senators, journalists and political operators. The novels treat public history as a contest over power, reputation…
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