Vidal, Gore

Profiles George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, the three most influential figures in the formation of the United States, discussing the role each played in the birth of the nation.

Tensions run high amid the crew of a ship caught in the frigid Arctic waters during storm season.

Profiles the American presidency and discusses the contributions of the more influential presidents.

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.

Gore Vidal dramatizes the U.S.'s centennial through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler, who returns to New York from exile and arranges for his widowed daughter to marry a rich man--and corruption seeps into Charlie's family even as it rages at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

A fictional memoir based on actual facts describing the early struggles and intrigues of the United States and of Aaron Burr.

The final installment in the author's six-volume series of historical novels about the American past in which he chronicles life in the nation's capital through the stories of James Burden Day, a politically ambitious senator; Clay Overbury, a young congressional aide; and Blaise Sandford, a newspaper tycoon.

In 1917 an actress's rise to stardom is paralleled by the birth of Hollywood.

T., a thirteen-year-old math prodigy, is summoned to the Smithsonian on Good Friday 1939, where scientists are working furiously to develop the atomic bomb, and discovers that he holds the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and time travel.

A historical novel recounts the events of Lincoln's presidency after his arrival in Washington, D.C. in 1861.