An edition of The Golden Age: a novel (2000)

The Golden Age

A Novel

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An edition of The Golden Age: a novel (2000)

The Golden Age

A Novel

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The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The American Idea. They experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin Roosevelt to bring a reluctant nation into the Second World War, and, later, the actions of Harry Truman that commit the nation to a decade-long twilight struggle against Communism—developments they regard with a decided skepticism even though it ends in an American global empire. The locus of these events is Washington D.C., yet the Hollywood film industry and the cultural centers of New York also play significant parts. In addition to presidents, the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages of The Golden Age include Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell—and Gore Vidal himself.

The Golden Age offers up U.S. history as only Gore Vidal can, with unrivaled penetration, wit, and high drama, allied to a classical view of human fate. It is a supreme entertainment that is not only sure to be a major bestseller but that will also change listeners' understanding of American history and power.

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Vintage
Language
English
Pages
480

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2001, Fazi Editore
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The Golden Age: A Novel
September 2001, Vintage
in English
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The golden age: a novel
2000, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.
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The golden age: a novel
2000, Random House Large Print
in English - 1st large print ed.
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The Golden Age: a novel
2000, Doubleday
in English
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The Golden Age
September 19, 2000, Random House Audio
Audio cassette in English - Abridged edition
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The Golden Age
September 19, 2000, Random House Audio
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The Golden Age
September 19, 2000, Random House Audio
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OL7426928M
ISBN 10
0375724818
ISBN 13
9780375724817
OCLC/WorldCat
48095400
Library Thing
25910
Goodreads
88885

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