Book review
Perry D. Floyd reviews Gore Vidal’s historical novel Empire, and while he expresses frustration at Vidal’s “deceitful lapses” and struggle to maintain fidelity to the historical record, Floyd finds the portrait of Theodore Roosevelt drawn in the novel to be quite sympathetic. Floyd highlights some of the other historical figures that Vidal has written about, such as Abraham Lincoln, and he contends that Vidal as a novelist is often able to illuminate historical figures in ways that historians and biographers cannot.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Creation Date
1987