The Golden Age
Gore Vidal
Vidal looks at the years of 1939 through 1954, in both Washington and New
York City. The main witnesses to the epochal events of the period are
Caroline Sanford, the Hollywood actress turned newspaper publisher from
Hollywood, and her son Peter Sanford, journalist and later
publisher of
The American Prospect, and independent intellectual journal.
These two
characters witness first hand the events and political machinations of
both Franklin Roosevelt and the Brits that led a reluctant United States
into a global war that would reshape its destiny and then the actions of
Harry Truman that would lead us into a bitter, decades long Cold War
against Communism.
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