Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Labarin ya shafi tarihin jaridar jarida na jaridun jarida na Caroline da Blaise Sanford. Yin wasa da waɗannan haruffa a kan ainihin rayuwar shekarun 1898 zuwa 1907, littafin ya nuna haɗin gwamnati da kafofin watsa labaru a cikin halittar Amurka ta zamani. Kamar sauran littattafan Vidal a cikin jerin "Narratives of Empire", wannan littafin yana ba da haske game da aikin jarida na lokacin, bayan da William Randolph Hearst ya yi ƙoƙari ya maye gurbin Theodore Roosevelt a matsayin shugaban kasa a 1904. Bayan abubuwan da suka faru kafin da kuma bin hauhawar Theodore Roosevelt zuwa shugabancin bayan William McKinley
kisan kai, ya hada da hotunan hotunan manyan mutane na yau da kullum kamar Roosevelt, Hearst, Henry Brooks Adams, Henry James, Sakataren Gwamnati John Hay da Shugaba William McKinley. A cikin wannan littafin, zuriyar Charlie Schuyler, babban jarumin almara, ya ci gaba da tarihin Amurka na gina daular. Duk da haka, yawancin haruffa a cikin wannan littafin ba gaskiya bane kuma tarihi ne.