His historical novels are usually underwritten by certified, if sometimes peripheral, professionals and by privileged contemporaries. Vidal is no professional historian, but professionals who have challenged, demeaned or dismissed his versions of history risk powerful discomfiture, for Vidal is not only a scholar but a first-rate polemicist. How much of what, say, President Franklin Roosevelt said to the fictional Caroline Sanford was really ever said or thought raises the uncertainties most historical novels raise. The theme is taken up by many other characters, some of whom have the names and careers of real people.
Burden Day speaking in this seventh and final volume of Gore Vidal's series on the making of the American empire. Then, for the last half century, we've made the countries of the Caribbean and Central America our property while occupying most of the islands of the Pacific including, after due incineration, our only Asian rival, Japan.' " That is Sen.
`It is no accident that for three hundred years our people willingly, I believe-maybe even joyously-slaughtered their way across this continent, enslaved Negroes, drove out Mexicans, broke more Indian treaties than Hitler ever bothered to make.
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