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Washington, D.C. by Vidal, Gore is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Review "A superb story. . . . Vidal's people are per-suasive, and he handles the interplay of per-sonality and power with rare skill. . . . Fascinating." --John Kenneth Galbraith " Vidal is the best political novelist since Disraeli. . . . [His] highly polished prose style, in part the fruit of his classical training, is a constant delight. One might even go so far as to call him a modern La Rochefoucauld." --Louis Auchincloss " Washington to Vidal is like some Jacobean court, a city where even the smallest movement is in-teresting and dangerous, and where strokes and suicide have taken the place of poison." --Times Literary Supplement Also available from the Modern Library: Burr ̧ Lincoln ̧ 1876 ̧ Empire ̧ Hollywood From the Hardcover edition. Product Description With a New Introduction Washington, D.C. , is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire,his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. It offers an illuminating portrait of our republic from the time of the New Deal to the McCar-thy era. Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate
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- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (1,255 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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