Gore Vidal - Washington D.C. World Books, 1968 319 str. tvrdi povez stanje: dobro 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 in it, Washington, D.C. is a stunning tale of corruption and diseased ambitions. It traces the fortunes of James Burden Day, a powerful conservative senator who is eyeing the presidency; Clay Overbury, a pragmatic young congressional aide with political aspirations of his own; and Blaise Sanford, a ruthless newspaper tycoon who understands the importance of money and image in modern politics. With characteristic wit and insight, Vidal chronicles life in the nation`s capital at a time when these men and others transformed America into `possibly the last empire on earth.` `Washington, D.C. may well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital,` said The New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement deemed it `a prodigiously skilled and clever performance.` Fiction, Historical Fiction, Politics