Super Short Summary

The Golden Age by Gore Vidal, the final novel in his Narratives of Empire series, critically examines America's rise to global power from 1939 to the post-World War II era, detailing President Franklin D. Roosevelt's controversial maneuvers to involve the U.S. in WWII, the Republican National Convention intrigues, and the socio-political impact on American culture, featuring figures like Dawn Powell and Tennessee Williams. Topics of war, political corruption, and violence appear in the book.