Empire

Description:

Caroline Sanford, a newspaper owner from Washington, D.C., struggles to gain power and respect in a male dominated industry, in this prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States as it begins to emerge as a world power at the dawn of the twentieth century.

subjects: Newspaper publishing,  Fiction,  Historical fiction,  History,  Fiction, historical,  Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919, fiction,  Presidents, fiction,  Washington (d.c.), fiction,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Henry James (1843-1916),  William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925),  William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951),  William McKinley (1843-1901),  Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Places: United States,  Washington (D.C.)

Times: 1901-1909