Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Littafin ya shafi tarihin jaridar jarida na haruffan dan uwan 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 bayan hawan Theodore Roosevelt zuwa shugabancin bayan kisan William McKinley
, ya hada da hotunan manyan mutane na yau da kullum kamar Roosevelt, Hearst, Henry Brooks Adams, Henry James, Sakataren Harkokin Wajen 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.