
Hollywood: A Novel
Narratives of Empire, Book 5
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Narrado por:
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Grover Gardner
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De:
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Gore Vidal
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. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics.
“Hollywood shimmers with the illusion of politics and the politics of illusion.” --Chicago Sun-Times
“A wonderfully literate and consistently impressive work of fiction that clearly belongs on a shelf with Vidal’s best.” --The New York Times Book Review
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As with the earlier books, the best of this one is its depiction of the hard politics in Washinton. It takes us into the inner workings of American politics during the Wilson and Harding presidencies, and is unfailingly shrewd and interesting as it does so. But, too often, he returns to the ever present society parties and then the shallow world of Hollywood.
There may be some truth in the Hollywood hegemony theory, but the book suffers by the lengthy and rather dull context provided as a frame for its illustration.
Again, the reading is simply superb.
Some gold, plenty of dross
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Great story
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Vidal and Gardner in Top Form
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Elegant and witty history
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Clipped chapters
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Incredibly irritating narration
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