Washington, D.C. (novel)
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Washington, D. C. by Gore Vidal
is the sixth in his Narratives of Empire
series of historical novel
s (although the first one published, in 1967). It begins in 1937 and continues into the Cold War
, tracing the families of Senator James Burden Day and Blaise Sanford.
This book is the least historical and most novelistic of any of the seven books. The Golden Age
, the seventh book in the series, takes place during nearly the same span of years with many of the same characters, and needed to be written around the events of Washington D.C.
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...
is the sixth in his Narratives of Empire
Narratives of Empire
The Narratives of Empire series is a heptalogy of historical novels by Gore Vidal. Published between 1967 and 2000, they chronicle the history of Vidal's "American Empire", from dawn to decay, by interweaving the private stories of two fictional American families with the public stories of...
series of historical novel
Historical novel
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, a historical novel is-Development:An early example of historical prose fiction is Luó Guànzhōng's 14th century Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which covers one of the most important periods of Chinese history and left a lasting impact on Chinese culture.The...
s (although the first one published, in 1967). It begins in 1937 and continues into the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
, tracing the families of Senator James Burden Day and Blaise Sanford.
This book is the least historical and most novelistic of any of the seven books. The Golden Age
The Golden Age (Gore Vidal novel)
The Golden Age, a historical novel published in 2000 by Gore Vidal, is the seventh and allegedly final novel in his "Narratives of Empire" series.-Plot introduction:...
, the seventh book in the series, takes place during nearly the same span of years with many of the same characters, and needed to be written around the events of Washington D.C.