Author

Publication

1999-02-16 - Modern Library

Language

English

Word Count

139,500 words, Guess

Page Count

558 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98046174
  • LibraryThing168094
  • Goodreads3123635

Classifications

  • LCCPS3543.I26 H65 1999

Description

Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States. It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America. Caroline Sanford, the alluring heroine of Empire, discovers the power of moving pictures to manipulate reality as she vaults to screen stardom under the name of Emma Traxler. Just as Caroline must balance her two lives - West Coast movie star and East Coast newspaper publisher and senator's mistress - so too must America balance its two power centers: Hollywood and Washington.

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