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The Golden Age is Gore Vidal's masterpiece, an epic historical novel that explores America's transformation from republic to empire in the 1940s and 1950s. It centers on Washington D.C., Hollywood, and New York, with characters like Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, and Joseph Alsop, whose experiences paint a vivid picture of the era.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Gore Vidal
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