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David Sabatini's Top Book Recommendations

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Lincoln

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.

To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all. In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the...
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Recommended by David Sabatini, and 1 others.

David SabatiniI tend to like historical fiction, so some of the books I’ve liked a lot and given to others have been Gore Vidal books. Like [this one]. (Source)

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Burr

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.

Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton,...
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Recommended by David Sabatini, and 1 others.

David SabatiniI tend to like historical fiction, so some of the books I’ve liked a lot and given to others have been Gore Vidal books. Like [this one]. (Source)

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