Washington, D.C.

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"A superb story____Vidal's people are persuasive, and he handlés the interplay
of personality and power with rare skill____Fascinating."
—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Washington Post
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire span the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
In 1937 Senator Burden Day is instrumental in defeating FDR's attemptto pack the Supreme Court, and the president's overreaching inspiresthe reckless behavior of this respected politician who himself has his eyes on the White House. But World War II hastensthe passing of the senator's moment, and the torch is reluc-tantly handed to his protégé, Clay Overbury. With the well-managed efforts of Blaise Sanford—willing... Tovább

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Fiction/Líterature
"A superb story____Vidal's people are persuasive, and he handlés the interplay
of personality and power with rare skill____Fascinating."
—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Washington Post
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire span the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.
In 1937 Senator Burden Day is instrumental in defeating FDR's attemptto pack the Supreme Court, and the president's overreaching inspiresthe reckless behavior of this respected politician who himself has his eyes on the White House. But World War II hastensthe passing of the senator's moment, and the torch is reluc-tantly handed to his protégé, Clay Overbury. With the well-managed efforts of Blaise Sanford—willing to sacrifice even his own daughter along the way— Overbury emerges as the glamorous best hope of the nation, a dubious hero of the war, and the perfect candidate forthe new age of média politics. Washington, D.C. is Gore Vidal's cunning account of the vast changes that irrevocably altered the nation's politics at mid-century.
"Vidal is a masterly American historical novelist____Vidal's imagination of
American politics, then and now, is so powerful as to compel awe." —Harold Bloom, The New York Review ofBooks Vissza