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The Golden Age (Narratives of Empire #7)

Gore Vidal

Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

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Title	:	The Golden Age (Narratives of Empire #7)
Author	:	Gore Vidal
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2001 by Vintage (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Politics. Literature. American. North American Hi.... American History. Novels

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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 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.

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Original Title:	The Golden Age
ISBN:	0375724818 (ISBN13: 9780375724817)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Narratives of Empire #7

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Why on earth did Vidal think we wanted more of Peter Sanford's perspective? These events were already covered in Washington, DC, which gave us plenty of Peter's views on things and furthermore painted him in not the best of lights. Meanwhile, there's no Caroline Sanford whatsoever in Washington, DC since Vidal clearly invented her for Empire. In Empire and again in Hollywood, Caroline quickly became one of the most interesting, vibrant, and likable characters in the entire series. Surely the

I have always found Gore Vidal to be a smug and condescending snob in interviews and on talk shows. These traits would be deadly in the narrative voice of novel, for a writer should see the best sides of characters as well as the worst. That is why I avoided Vidal's fiction until this book came so highly recommended that I had to give it a chance. Unfortunately, it find the narrative voice so snide and superior in its attitude to the characters that I am put-off, and stopped reading at just past

Started listening to this book in Washington DC as I was walking around as I thought that would be a good backdrop for it. Didn't expect to enjoy it as much as his books on the earlier parts of history (and I guess I didn't), but ended up liking it more than I thought I would. Having himself as a character was particularly interesting.

Boring

This was not a terrible book, I suppose, but it just was not up to the standards of Burr and Lincoln.

This one is highly opinionated as compared to Vidal's other novels in the American Empire chronicle. The general point of the novel remains the same: That the US Govt is out for a globally encompassing empire, even if that means usurping distant lands that are fragile with rebellious or broken government. The novel peaks kind of early. The focus being on the Roosevelt Administration; supposedly needing the Pearl Harbor attack to make US participation in WWII acceptable on the homefront. December

Excellent in many aspects. Let's not forget that he book is not a historical account but a novel played in the 'golden years' of America. Entertaining ? no. But informative and well researched like Michener's books. A very good book to read ...