"California" . . "United States" . . . . "Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)" . . "Los Angeles (Calif.)" . . "1901 - 1953" . . . . "History"@en . "History" . . . . . . "Political fiction"@en . "Historical fiction"@en . . . "It is 1917 and from the White House President Wilson is moving us into WWI. Far away in California a new industry, motion pictures, struggles to be born. Caroline Sanford travels in both worlds. In one she is a star, in the other a publisher and, in her spare time, a senator's mistress. She is perfect in all her roles, the studios easily combining real power with the powerful art of make-believe. Hollywood is fifth in the American Chronicles series following Empire."@en . . . . "Hollywood" . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . "Hollywood"@en . . . . . . . . "Hollywood a novel of America in the 1920's" . "Hollywood [a novel of America in the 1920's]"@en . . . . . . "Audiobooks"@en . . . . "As part of his \"biography of the United States\", Vidal presents a blend of history and fiction, public and private lives, and the scandals of politics and the young motion picture industry. In 1917, Caroline Sanford, now forty and as attractive as ever, is recruited to the new \"picture-play\" industry in California, in the cause of propaganda." . . .