All this takes place while Wilson enters the United States into World War I and battles over the League of Nations, and Harding's subsequent attempts to return the country to "Normalcy". Caroline becomes both a producer and, using a pseudonym, also performs as an actress. In the novel, Hearst and Caroline separately enter the movie business. Harding, as well early Hollywood figures such as Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies, Elinor Glyn, Mabel Normand, and William Desmond Taylor, whose 1922 murder Vidal presents in fictionalized form. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Warren G. Historical characters introduced in this novel include Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Events are seen through the eyes of the Sanfords, Day, and the historical Jess Smith, a member of the Ohio Gang. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls.
A literary cause clbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Published in 1990, it brings back the fictional Caroline Sanford, Blaise Sanford and James Burden Day and the real Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst from Empire (the fourth novel in the series). The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories.
Hollywood is the fifth historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series.
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