"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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