Hollywood
Subtitle: a novel of America in the 1920s
By: Gore Vidal.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Motion picture industry -- Fiction; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: It is 1917, and President Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War. 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.