Hollywood
- List Price: $24.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Modern Library
- Publish date: 02/16/1999
Description:
Hollywood begins in 1917, the year in which the U.S. enters the war as, at home, a new industry rises in the West. The fledgling Hollywood is hollow and corrupt. On the East Coast, Caroline Sanford is a newspaper tycoon and senator's mistress; on the West Coast, she enters the film business as Emma Traxler and becomes a star. This is gaudy, exciting history, filled with characters like Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Gore Vidal's own grandfather, the blind Senator Gore. "Hollywood shimmers with the illusion of politics and the politics of illusion, ' said the Chicago Sun-Times.
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