![]() ![]() That next volume was the celebrated Lincoln (1984), which follows events in Washington from Abraham Lincoln's surreptitious arrival in the city to be inaugurated for his first term in the White House to his assassination scarcely four years later. It was nearly a decade before Vidal would add another volume to the American Chronicle series. Centennial year, which pitted Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York against Republican Rutherford B. Another three years went by, and Vidal published 1876 (1976), portraying the events leading up to and immediately following the hotly contested presidential election campaign of the U.S. (1967) was followed six years later by Burr (1973), which covers the period 1775 to 1840 as it was lived and understood by the notorious Aaron Burr. This is chapter two of Jeff Riggenbach’s new book, Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism. ![]()
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