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Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 10 months ago
Views - 3
Ships From - New Mexico
Est. Publication Date - Oct 2000
Seller Description
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 supreme entertainment and a major bestseller that will change listeners' understanding of American history and power. **In like new condition, Mylar cover over the dust jacket, binding and pages are intact. *** Combined shipping is available if you make more than one purchase. This saves you shipping costs. Postal rates are set by the U.S. Postal Service, not the sellers, and are based on item weight.😊
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The Golden Age (LARGE PRINT)
ISBN: 9780375430824
Publisher Description
The Golden Ageis the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War T...
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