# The Golden Age

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- Book: [The Golden Age](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal/the-golden-age) ([The Golden Age.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal/the-golden-age.md))
- Authors: [Gore Vidal](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7572-481-7
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2001-09-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America,...