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Dette er den tredje boka i Vidals serie om utviklinga av den amerikanske republikken. Den tar for seg amerikansk politikk og kultur fra 1933 til 1954. Hovedpersonen er Caroline Sanford, utgiver av ei avis i Washington D.C.
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The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated bestselling 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.#11;The historical novel is once again in vogue, and Gore Vidal stands as its undisputed American master. In his six previous narratives of the American empire - Burr, Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood and Washington, D.C. - he has created a fictional portrait of our nation from its founding that is unmatched in our literature for its scope, intimacy, political intelligence, and eloquence. Each has been a major bestseller, and some have stirred controversy for their decidedly ironic and unillusioned view of the realities of American power and of the men and women who have exercised that power.#11;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 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 Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell - and Gore Vidal himself.#11;The Golden Age offers up United States 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 will also change reader's understanding of American history and power.
GORE VIDAL is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundered essays, and a memoir. Two of his American empire novels, Lincoln and 1876, were the subject of coverstories in Time and Newsweek, respectively. In 1993, a collection of his criticism, United States: Essays 1952-1992, won the National Book award. He received an award from the Cannes Film Festivalfor best screenplay for The Best Man. He divides his time between Ravello, Italy, and Los Angeles.
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Forlag Doubleday
Utgivelsesår 2000
Format Innbundet
ISBN13 9780385500753
EAN 9780385500753
Omtalt tid Etterkrigstiden 1939-1945 1918-1939
Omtalt sted USA
Språk Engelsk
Sider 467
Utgave 1
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