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      Washington, D.C.

      by Gore Vidal
      Published
      Sep 1986
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      374
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      Series
      American Chronicles

      About This Book

      "May well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital."
      THE NEW YORKER
      From the New Deal to the McCarthy era, follow the lives of Blaise Sanford, the ruthless Washington newspaper tycoon...his son, Peter, a brilliant liberal editor both fascinated and repelled by the imperial city...Peter's beautiful and self-destructive sister, Enid...her husband, Clay Overbury, a charismatic and ambitious politician...and James Burden Day, the powerful conservative senator.
      In WASHINGTON, D.C., the incomparable Vidal presents the life of politics and society in the nation's capital in the final stages of "the last empire on Earth."

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      First Edition Sep 1986 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345342362 ISBN10 0345342364
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      May 1981 Random House ISBN13 9780345301093 ISBN10 0345301099
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      Dec 1983 Random House ISBN13 9780345312136 ISBN10 0345312139
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      Jul 1988 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345008879 ISBN10 0345008871
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      May 1994 Little, Brown (UK) ISBN13 9780349105277 ISBN10 0349105278
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      Aug 2000 Vintage ISBN13 9780375708770 ISBN10 0375708774
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      May 1976 Random House ISBN13 9780394406893 ISBN10 0394406893
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      Feb 1999 Modern Library ISBN13 9780679602910 ISBN10 0679602917
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