The golden age : a novel
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Published
New York : Doubleday, 2000.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
467 pages ; 24 cm.
Status
Prunedale Branch - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Doubleday, 2000.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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"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." "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. They 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. In 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vidal, G. (2000). The golden age: a novel . Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore, 1925-. 2000. The Golden Age: A Novel. Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore, 1925-. The Golden Age: A Novel Doubleday, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore. The Golden Age: A Novel Doubleday, 2000.
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