![]() ![]() ![]() John assured us that above Madison Square, as far north as Fifty-second Street, European-style mansions are going up. "But this can't be done after the popular vote is already known!" Bigelow is innocent in ways that surprise me. The fact that I can no longer tell a prostitute from a fine lady is the first sign that I have been away for a very long time.Īdmittedly, the Electoral College-that ridiculous invention of the founders-can be manipulated to some degree but not sufficiently at this late hour to cheat the people of what they have so overwhelmingly voted for. Tilden, and Ohio's Republican Governor, Rutherford B. Having just returned from years in Europe, Charlie chronicles the city's elites and the centennial year's controversial presidential election between New York's Democratic Governor, Samuel J. From 1876, by Gore Vidal, 1976. ( Novel 3 in the 7-novel "Narratives of Empire" series.)ġ876, as with Burr, is set mostly in New York City with Charlie Schuyler as narrator. ![]()
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