November 9, 2018 7 min read Literary legend’s papers archived at Houghton Library Gore Vidal was driven, brilliant, irascible, irreverent
In Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State & Vidal on America, TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay and the acclaimed essayist, screenwriter and novelist
Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on
Spats with Truman Capote, punch-ups with Norman Mailer, a TV showdown that electrified the US and has now
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Paperback – February 15, 2000
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Albans School in Washington and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1943
, residence of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, a senator from Oklahoma
A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating
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As noted in Vidal's own introduction, it can be considered a "crash course" in
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Vidal intertwines fond recollections of films savored in the movie palaces of his Washington, D
At age ten, the film A Midsummer Night's Dream whetted his appetite for all of Shakespeare's plays, and Mickey Rooney's Puck inspired his early fantasy about becoming an actor
The Golden Age represents the seventh and final installment of this national epic, covering the years from 1939 to 1954 (with a valedictory fast-forward, in its final pages, to the end of the millennium)
We republish it now as a way of protesting the persecution of Assange and the threat to what’s left of Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years
We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy, and adventure
He has been a political activist and as Democratic candidate for Congress from upstate New York, he received the most votes of any Democrat in a half-century
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I do hope Gore Vidal would have been pleased with it, because he would have shredded the author if he hadn't! This book convincingly describes, through its well-crafted and lengthy look at Gore Vidal's life, how important honesty, disciplined writing habits, and the history and politics of the United States were to Mr
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