Hollywood
by Gore Vidal
Motion picture industryMotion picture industry in fictionFictionCalifornia, fictionHollywood (los angeles, calif.), fiction
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Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States. 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.
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Motion picture industryMotion picture industry in fictionFictionCalifornia, fictionHollywood (los angeles, calif.), fictionLos angeles (calif.), fiction
Setting
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)CaliforniaLos Angeles
About the author
Gore Vidal
03 October 1925 – 31 July 2012
Gore Vidal (full name: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.) was a renowned American author.
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