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...that comment is, of course, intended ironically as well. But the novel completes a very American literary project that, for all its various humors, Vidal takes seriously indeed: a fictional history of the U.S. as portrayed through the conduct, mostly bad, of its elected leaders. This best-selling saga started with "Washington, D.C." and continued with "Burr" (1973), "1876" (1976), "Lincoln" (1984), "Empire" (1987) and "Hollywood" (1990). "The Golden Age" wraps up the long story and includes a flash-forward to earlier this year, when Peter Sanford, overweight and 77, visits the Italian villa of his old friend Gore Vidal...
...saga began in 1995, when a walk-in source gave the CIA a document from the People's Republic of China that claimed Chinese weapons designers had obtained specific and highly classified details of an American nuclear warhead known as the W-88. Not everyone in the intelligence community was convinced the document was genuine. The DOE and the FBI, which handles spy catching, quickly learned that several agencies and some defense contractors had information about the W-88, and concluded that the leak had probably occurred at the weapons lab at Los Alamos, where most of the data were...
...Democrat was less than thrilled with the idea that Joe Lieberman might get the nod. Bill Clinton praised the choice after it was made, but before the fact, he railed privately about how much Lieberman's latest book, In Praise of Public Life, ticked him off. ("The Clinton-Lewinsky saga," Lieberman writes, "is the most vivid example we have of the virus of lost standards.") Clinton told friends he was sick and tired of Lieberman's sanctimony. The Senator's famous 1998 speech condemning Clinton's behavior was one thing, the President suggested, but wasn't it about time...
...know the rest of the saga... wrong e-mail, wrong phone number. And that's all. It seems embarrassing - almost - that two intelligent women approaching their thirties, with more than 10 years (combined) of higher education, and highly demanding media careers, were duped one Wednesday night at their favorite bar... which perfectly illustrates that they are more vulnerable than they originally thought...
...shoving, after the shouting, after the standoffs with security and the run-ins with Long Beach police, the principals on both sides of the fray did their best to gaze into a glorious electoral future with a straight face. And the next chapter in this two-roads-diverged saga is the $12.6 million lifeblood in federal matching funds, which both Reform parties insist is rightfully theirs...