Tilden, Governor of New York, because he hopes to secure himself a diplomatic position with the incoming administration, enabling him to return to Europe.
Schuyler also supports the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Despite his fame and affluent image, Schuyler finds work as a journalist because his wealth has been destroyed by the Panic of 1873 and his daughter's late husband has left her penniless. She immediately becomes the darling of New York high society. The novel follows Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler who has recently returned to the United States after more than 30 years in Europe, where he married into minor Napoleonic nobility he is accompanied by his beautiful, young, widowed daughter Emma, the Princesse d'Agrigente. The novel is written in the form of a journal written by Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. It was published in 1976 and details the events of a year described by Vidal as "probably the low point in our republic's history". 1876 is the third historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.
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