Hollywood (Vidal novel)

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name = Hollywood
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author = Gore Vidal
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country = United States
language = English
series = Narratives of Empire
genre = Historical novel
publisher = Vintage
release_date = 1990
english_release_date = 1990
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 448pp
isbn = ISBN 0375708758
preceded_by = Empire
followed_by = Washington, D.C.

"Hollywood" is the fifth historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. It was published in 1990. It brings back the fictional Caroline Sanford, Blaise Sanford and James Burden Day and the real Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst from "Empire" (the fourth novel in the series). Historical characters introduced in this novel include Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Warren G. Harding, as well early Hollywood figures such as Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies, Elinor Glyn, Mabel Normand, and William Desmond Taylor, whose 1922 murder Vidal presents in fictionalized form. In the novel, Hearst and Caroline separately enter the movie business. Caroline becomes both a producer and, using a pseudonym, also performs as an actress. All this takes place while Wilson enters the U.S. into World War I and battles over the League of Nations, and Harding attempts to return the country to "Normalcy."