Washington DC Author:Gore Vidal Washington, D.C. is a story of national politics from the New Deal to the McCarthy era, superbly blending historical figures with fictional characters to create a stunning and illuminating protrait or our country. Follow the lives of Blaise Sanford, the ruthless Washington newspaper tycoon; his son Peter, a liberal editor both fascinated and re... more »pelled by the imperial city; Peter's beautiful and self-destructive sister, Enid; her husband, Clay Overbury, a charismatic and ambitious politician; and James Burden Day, the powerful, conservative senator. In Washington, D.C., Vidal presents the life of politics and society in the nation's capital in the final stages of "the last empire on Earth."« less