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100 1 $aVidal, Gore,$d1925-2012.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79040150
245 14 $aThe golden age :$ba novel /$cGore Vidal.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c2000.
300 $a467 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's American empire novels - a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.".
520 8 $a"The Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War Two 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, Washington, D.C., newspaper publisher turned Hollywood pioneer producer-star, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The American Idea.
520 8 $aThey experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin Roosevelt to bring a reluctant nation into World War Two, and later, the actions of Harry Truman that commit the nation to a decades-long twilight struggle against Communism - developments they regard with a marked skepticism, even though they end 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.
520 8 $aIn addition to presidents, the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages of The Golden Age include Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Wilkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell - and Gore Vidal himself."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1933-1945$vFiction.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1945-1953$vFiction.
650 0 $aNewspaper publishing$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108410
651 0 $aWashington (D.C.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113487
650 0 $aWomen publishers$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010118971
650 0 $aMothers and sons$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107231
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108377
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