VIDAL, GORE — The Golden Age
NY: Doubleday, 2000. 0385500750. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0385500750. Quarter bound in publisher's grey cloth over grey boards, gilt lettering on spine. "The Golden Age" is the seventh and concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling "Narratives of the American Empire" series - a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War. In his six previous narratives of the American empire - (1) Burr, (2) Lincoln, (3) 1876, (4) Empire, (5) Hollywood, and (6) Washington, D.C. - he has created a fictional portrait of our nation from its founding that is unmatched in our literature for its scope, intimacy, political intelligence, and eloquence. Each has been a major bestseller, and some have stirred controversy for their decidedly ironic and un-illusioned view of the realities of American power and of the men and women who have exercised it. The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War Two and the Cold War transformed America from a republic into an empire. Brief gift inscription on ffep, else as new; otherwise unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket is in perfect, pristine condition. VERY GOOD/AS NEW. Narratives of the American Empire Series. Vol. 7. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. (viii), 467 pp. Very Good in As New dust jacket .
