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Title: Hollywood Condition: New Subtitle: Number 5 in series Author: Gore Vidal Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 034910526X EAN: 9780349105260 ISBN: 9780349105260 Publisher: Abacus Genre: Fiction Topic: Historical Fiction Release Date: 02/04/1994 Description: Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in this book. Caroline Sanford, erstwhile newspaper magnate, launches herself into the West Coast land of celluloid dreams and becomes, overnight, an international star. Not for nothing, on the dawn of World War One, is Caroline making films like the Huns from Hell. She is a government agent. But in Washington, that government isn't doing awfully well. Weighed down by his League of Nation's failure, by Roosevelt, Clemenceau, a stroke and the ship-like tonnage of his wife Edith, President Woodrow Wilson is on the wane - and Warren Harding is on the up. A popular, handsome, toothpick-chomping philanderer and dimwit whose wife is given to consulting spiritualists, he is about to usher in a new era. One of unprecedented scandal, cinematic extravagance and tawdry disintegration. The sort of era where the President could easily be mistaken for a film star ... Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 199mm Item Length: 171mm Item Width: 35mm Item Weight: 401g Book Series: Narratives of empire Release Year: 1994
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