Empire / Vidal, Gore

The fourth novel in a six-volume series about the American past in which Caroline Sanford, fighting to control her own fate, must confront her two most formidable enemies, William Randolph Hearst and his protege, Blaise Sanford, Caroline's half-brother.

A portrait of turn-of-the-century America in the buoyant aftermath of the Spanish-American War, as ambitious Caroline Sanford fights to control her own fate.