### Review "A superb story. . . . Vidal's people are per-suasive, and he handles the interplay of per-sonality and power with rare skill. . . . Fascinating." \--John Kenneth Galbraith " Vidal is the best political novelist since Disraeli. . . . [His] highly polished prose style, in part the fru
Washington, D.C.
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- Book ID
- 109305357
- Publisher
- Ballantine Group
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Series
- Narratives 6
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A major American novelist and playwright records the dirty game of sex, slander and sellout played by a corrupt politician in the most spectacular book ever written about
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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The rich Jewish hostess who would be a social queen, a slick lobbyist whose constituency is only himself, a high-ranking soldier who wants to defeat Communism by starting with the eradication of the Bill of Rights ... immediate, homey crises (such as) adultery, incest, intimations of homosexuality and patricide. The book moves, like the events of theatre, with reckless speed.๏ฟฝ
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