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Golden Age by Gore Vidal (2000, Hardcover)
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- ISBN
- 9780375430824
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Large Print
ISBN-10
0375430822
ISBN-13
9780375430824
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1759245
Product Key Features
Book Title
Golden Age
Number of Pages
720 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Contemporary Women, Family Life, General, Political, Historical
Features
Large Type
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
35.5 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-059107
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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Edition Description
Large Type / large print edition
Synopsis
The Golden Ageis 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 journalThe 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 ofThe Golden Ageinclude Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell-and Gore Vidal himself. The Golden Ageoffers 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
LC Classification Number
PS3543.I26G65 2000b
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