His most recent work, The Golden Age (Random House) is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling American empire novels-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War. In his six previous narratives of the American empire-Burr, Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C.-he has created a fictional portrait of our nation from its founding.

Hear Gore Vidal read from The Golden Age in this Bold Type recording.

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