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Hollywood: Number 5 in series by Gore Vidal (Paperback, 1994)
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This is a novel that enlarges your sense of daily life and politics in Washington - and that engages you scandal by scandal and issue by issue without engaging you in its leading character's fate. And all ends, quietly, like fireflies on the veranda.
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Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in this book. Caroline Sanford, erstwhile newspaper magnate, launches herself into the West Coast land of celluloid dreams and becomes, overnight, an international star. Not for nothing, on the dawn of World War One, is Caroline making films like the Huns from Hell. She is a government agent. But in Washington, that government isn't doing awfully well. Weighed down by his League of Nation's failure, by Roosevelt, Clemenceau, a stroke and the ship-like tonnage of his wife Edith, President Woodrow Wilson is on the wane - and Warren Harding is on the up. A popular, handsome, toothpick-chomping philanderer and dimwit whose wife is given to consulting spiritualists, he is about to usher in a new era. One of unprecedented scandal, cinematic extravagance and tawdry disintegration. The sort of era where the President could easily be mistaken for a film star ...Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139780349105260
eBay Product ID (ePID)86723107
Product Key Features
Book TitleHollywood: Number 5 in Series
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicLiterature, Books
GenreHistorical
AuthorGore Vidal
Book SeriesNarratives of Empire
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height199 mm
Item Weight350 g
Item Width171 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorGore Vidal
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- 18 Apr, 2023
A fantastic romp through the byways of US history.
First class narrative of the full sweep of United States history. You'll learn more from Mr Vidal than any number of academic historiesVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Aug, 2020
Interesting and informative
Great addition to the seriesVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
