Empire: A Novel, Gore Vidal"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." The New York Times Book Review In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Agea period of promise and possibility, of empire building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and