Washington, D.C.: A Novel - Brossura

Vidal, Gore

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375708774 ISBN 13: 9780375708770

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2000

Riassunto

An illuminating study of American national politics, from the New Deal to the McCarthy Era, contrasts the personalities, politics, and values of two men vying for the Presidency as it follows the lives and fortunes of ruthless newspaper tycoon Blaise Sanford, his liberal son, his self-destructive daughter, his politician son-in-law, and a powerful conservative senator. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"A superb story. . . . Vidal's people are per-suasive, and he handles the interplay of per-sonality and power with rare skill. . . . Fascinating."
--John Kenneth Galbraith

"        Vidal is the best political novelist since Disraeli. . . . [His] highly polished prose style, in part the fruit of his classical training, is a constant delight. One might even go so far as to call him a modern La Rochefoucauld."
--Louis Auchincloss

"        Washington to Vidal is like some Jacobean court, a city where even the smallest movement is in-teresting and dangerous, and where strokes and suicide have taken the place of poison."
--Times Literary Supplement
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L'autore:

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375708774
• ISBN 13: 9780375708770
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432