The golden age
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Walker, Kathryn, 1943- narrator.
Status
Audiobook - North Wing Basement
Vidal
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Vidal
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Location | Call Number | Copy Number | Status |
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Audiobook - North Wing Basement | Vidal | #1-5 | On Shelf |
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Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
5 discs (6 hr.) : digital mono. ; 4.75 in.
Language
English
Notes
Participants/Performers
Reader, Kathryn Walker.
Description
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 II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The American Idea. They experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin Roosevelt to bring a reluctant nation into the Second World War, and, later, the actions of Harry Truman that commit the nation to a decade-long twilight struggle against Communismdevelopments they regard with a decided skepticism even though it ends in an American global empire. The locus of these events is Washington D.C., yet the Hollywood film industry and the cultural centers of New York also play significant parts. In addition to presidents, the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages of The Golden Age include Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powelland Gore Vidal himself.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vidal, G., & Walker, K. (2000). The golden age (Abridged.). BDD Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 and Kathryn Walker. 2000. The Golden Age. BDD Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 and Kathryn Walker. The Golden Age BDD Audio, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vidal, Gore, and Kathryn Walker. The Golden Age Abridged., BDD Audio, 2000.
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