Burr, George Lincoln

The Narratives of Empire series is a heptalogy of historical novels by American writer Gore Vidal, published between 1967 and 2000, that chronicle the dawn-to-decadence history of the "American Empire"; the narratives weave the stories of two families with the personages and events of U.S. history. Despite the publisher's preference for the politically neutral series-title "American Chronicles", Vidal preferred the series title "Narratives of Empire". The seven novels can be read in either histo…