Washington D.C.: A Novel (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Vidal, Gore

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ISBN 10: 0679602917 ISBN 13: 9780679602910

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1999

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Book by Vidal Gore

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Contrasts the personalities, politics, and values of two men vying for the Presidency

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Washington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire,his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCar-thy era.

Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate in it, Washington, D.C. is a stunning tale of corruption and diseased ambitions. It traces the fortunes of James Burden Day, a powerful conservative senator who is eyeing the presidency; Clay Overbury, a pragmatic young congressional aide with political aspirations of his own; and Blaise Sanford, a ruthless newspaper tycoon who understands the importance of money and image in modern politics. With characteristic wit and insight, Vidal chronicles life in the nation's capital at a time when these men and others transformed America into "possibly the last empire on earth

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679602917
• ISBN 13: 9780679602910
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 422