The Resource The golden age : a novel, Gore Vidal
The golden age : a novel, Gore Vidal
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The item The golden age : a novel, Gore Vidal represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The golden age : a novel, Gore Vidal represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The golden age : a novel
- Title
- The golden age
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Gore Vidal
- Subject
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- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Mothers and sons
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- Newspaper publishing
- Newspaper publishing -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- 1933-1953
- United States
- United States -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 1945-1953 -- Fiction
- Washington (D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
- Women publishers
- Women publishers -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1925-2012
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vidal, Gore
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- United States
- Newspaper publishing
- Washington (D.C.)
- Women publishers
- Mothers and sons
- New York (N.Y.)
- Mothers and sons
- Newspaper publishing
- Women publishers
- New York (State)
- United States
- Washington (D.C.)
- Label
- The golden age : a novel, Gore Vidal
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm44174305
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 467 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385500753
- Lccn
- 00043071
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The golden age : a novel, Gore Vidal
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm44174305
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 467 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385500753
- Lccn
- 00043071
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Mothers and sons
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- Newspaper publishing
- Newspaper publishing -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- 1933-1953
- United States
- United States -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 1945-1953 -- Fiction
- Washington (D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
- Women publishers
- Women publishers -- Fiction
- Political fiction
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