But Enid Canford doesn’t think so: she marries him, so providing the Sanford newspaper dynasty with a direct line to the Senator. Extremely handsome, oozing charm and seemingly dedicated to the Senator’s cause, he is also duplicitous, conniving, and disloyal. Young Clay Overbury, Senator Burden Day’s assistant, has both a modest background and immense ambitions. It is a trick that Gore Vidal has mastered in his ongoing chronicle of that circus of opportunism and hypocrisy called American politics and which he plays with renewed vigour in this expose of the nation’s capital. “History is gossip,” says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., “but the trick is determining which gossip is history.” (mentioned in Mark Leibovich’s This Town, which I finished last night). Most of all, I’m interested in reading WASHINGTON, D.C. I’m really interested in reading them (American history and fiction = bound to attract my attention). Has anyone read these? The series, Narratives of Empire is also sometimes known as The Chronicles of America.
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