Characters in "The Golden Age"
Historical characters: William Randolph Hearst, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell L. Wilkie, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Thomas Pryor Gore, and Gore Vidal himself
Fictional characters: Caroline Sanford, Blaise Sanford, Peter Sanford, James Burden Day, Diana Day, Enid Sanford, Clay Overbury, and Emma Sandford
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