- Newspaper publishing, Fiction, Historical fiction, History
Caroline Sanford, a newspaper owner from Washington, D.C., struggles to gain power and respect in a male dominated industry, in this prodigiously detailed portrait of the United States as it begins to emerge as a world power at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Gore Vidal
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 502
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch, Franklin Library, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- Italian, German, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9788806161545
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Gore Vidal (full name: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.) was a renowned American author.
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