1876: A Novel

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Kirkus Review: Once again as in Burr (1973) Vidal centers on politics as the manifestation and shaper of American identity. Here he illuminates one of the nation's dark moments, the disputed TildenHayes election along with the centralizing drift of money, power and sectional interests toward the capital. Charlie Schuyler is again the journalist-narrator. As an admirer of the ailing Tilden, a scrupulous ascetic, Schuyler forgoes his detachment and reports the corrupt electoral tangles. While Tilden falls, notables in New York and Washington are observed: a smooth, intelligent Garfield (". . . when you are dealt the cards you play them"); a glum, bewildered Grant; a ""deceitful"" Senator Conkling ("Senate seats are expensive. . . It is all money nowadays"); and also that likable rake, James Bennett, Jr. of the Herald. While Schuyler lives out what is to be his last year, daughter Emma breaks an engagement and marries a widower (whose son will appear in Vidal's next novel). 1876 is a rich, talky book, but the talk--rarefied escritoire to bockbeer blunt--moves easily. An achievement--Vidal revolutionizes the genre with a seriousness and a muscle both firm and new. Fiction

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