Gore Vidal
Author
Series
American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Returning to America after his long European sojourn, Charlie Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, and Charlie's widowed daughter seek financial and political advancement in the centennial power centers, as republican idealism is giving way to imperial expediency.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Washington, a 13-year-old math genius is summoned to the Smithsonian Institution to help scientists build a weapon to win the coming war. The institution's wax effigies come alive and he meets historical figures. A comic fantasy.
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