Hollywood (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Hollywood opens in 1917. The three brilliant observers who added intellectual bite to Empire are gone. John Hay and Henry James are dead, and Henry Adams, frail and isolated, makes only brief appearances before his own death. Caroline Sanford, now forty years old, observes the maneuvers of President Woodrow Wilson. She is publisher, with her half brother Blaise Sanford, of the Washington Tribune. She watches Wilson push the United States toward entry into World War I, despite the fact that he had just been reelected using the slogan “He kept us out of war,”...

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