The Boston Globe, October 29th, 2000
Gore Vidal's "The Golden Age" lasts a mere 14 years. It opens with the Roosevelt-Willkie election of 1940 and ends just after the Korean War (a brief coda brings us up to the millennium celebrations). In between we have Eleanor and Franklin, the Second World War, a much- abused Harry Truman, the rise and immediate fall of the 1950s, and a plot so thin it could fit on a Post-it. The book's strength is Vidal's superb grasp of American history, while its limitation is his familiar habit of putting his opinions into the mouth of any passing character. But as Oscar Wilde said when similarly critici...
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