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Golden Age : A Novel by Gore Vidal (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375724818

ISBN-139780375724817

eBay Product ID (ePID)2149488

Product Key Features

Book TitleGolden Age : a Novel

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicContemporary Women, Family Life, Literary, Political, Historical

FeaturesReprint

GenreFiction

AuthorGore Vidal

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Reviews"[A] true magnum opus." --The New York Times "A smart, witty Washington novel... You'll be gripped to the edge of your Chesterfield... Long live Gore Vidal." --Chicago Sun-Times "Rich in dialogue and mirthless humor,The Golden Ageis... a worthy conclusion to one of the finest sustained historical visions in American literature." --The New York Observer, "[A] true magnum opus." -- The New York Times "A smart, witty Washington novel... You'll be gripped to the edge of your Chesterfield... Long live Gore Vidal." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Rich in dialogue and mirthless humor, The Golden Age is... a worthy conclusion to one of the finest sustained historical visions in American literature." -- The New York Observer

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisThe 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.