Washington, D.C. (novel)

Washington, D.C.
Cover of the first edition
Author Gore Vidal
Country United States
Language English
Series Narratives of Empire
Genre Historical novel
Publisher Little, Brown
Publication date
1967
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 432pp
ISBN 0-375-70877-4
OCLC 49559031
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3543.I26 W3 2000
Preceded by Hollywood
Followed by The Golden Age

Washington, D.C. is a 1967 novel by Gore Vidal. The sixth novel in his Narratives of Empire series of historical novels (although the first one published), it begins in 1937 and continues into the Cold War, tracing the families of Senator James Burden Day and influential newspaper publisher Blaise Sanford.

This book is the least historical and most novelistic of any of the seven books. The Golden Age, the seventh book in the series, takes place during nearly the same span of years with many of the same characters, and needed to be written around the events of Washington D.C.

The novel is written in the third person and is inspired by the novels of Henry James.[1]

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