Ashley Platz interviewed by Fred Vidal™ for MADINCOM™: The Reality Game™ (season I) © 2007, Modernscope™ Inc.
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Hollywood $8.83 “Wicked and provocative…Vidal’s purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating.” âChicago TribuneIn his brilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one of the most fascinating periods of American political and social change. The time is 1917. In Washington, President Wilson is about to lead the United States into the Great War. In California, a new industry is… |
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Hollywood (Modern Library) $24.00 Who could possibly resist a novel that begins as William Randolph Hearst falls on his behind? The fifth novel in Gore Vidal’s Narratives of Empire sequence (sixth, however, in order of publication) begins on the eve of American involvement in the First World War and ends shortly after the mysterious death of Warren G. Harding and ascension of the taciturn Calvin Coolidge to the presidency. B… |
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Hollywood It is 1917 and from the White House President Wilson is moving us into WW I. Far away in California a new industry, motion pictures, struggles to be born. Caroline Sanford travels in both worlds. In one she is a star, in the other a publisher and, in her spare time, a senator’s mistress. She is perfect in all her roles, the studios easily combining real power with the powerful art of make-believe… |
