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Gore Vidal
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Author : Fred Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-05
Gore Vidal written by Fred Kaplan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult. And yet, an accurate picture of this multifaceted chameleon has eluded us until now. This book provides a biography of a literary icon.
Conversations With Gore Vidal
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2005
Conversations With Gore Vidal written by Gore Vidal and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Almost sixty years ago, Gore Vidal burst onto the literary landscape with his World War II novel Williwaw. He never looked back. To date he has published twenty-nine novels, one short story collection, six theatrical plays, and numerous books of nonfiction. His novel The City and the Pillar was a groundbreaking work in the history of homosexual literature. In Myra Breckinridge Vidal created a ribald parody of sexual morality and identity. In 1967 Vidal published Washington, D.C. It would be the first of seven novels that have come to be known as the American Chronicles, a sprawling history of the empire filled with a cast of the most significant social, literary, and political figures of the United States. Conversations with Gore Vidal features provocative and intriguing interviews with one of America's most prolific authors. Vidal was an enfant terrible in the 1940s and a marginalized homosexual in the 1950s. As Edgar Box he wrote mysteries, and as a screenwriter he penned the script for Ben-Hur. In 1960 he ran for Congress. In the 1990s, he appeared in films such as Gattaca, Bob Roberts, and Shadow Conspiracy. His essay collection United States: Essays 1952-1992, which features 114 pieces on everything from Howard Hughes to French literature, won the National Book Award. Vidal proves himself here to be a witty, acerbic, cantankerous conversationalist, one who is willing to-and often eager to-defy conventional wisdom and lacerate the tired clich s inherent in both politics and literature. A defiant political insider who is related to both the Gores and the Kennedys, he is a proud Leftist who nevertheless does not hesitate to slash at party orthodoxy when he deems it necessary. Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole are the editors of the literary journal Gargoyle, based in Washington, D.C.
The Essential Gore Vidal
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Essential Gore Vidal written by Gore Vidal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
Longtime fans gain a one-volume collection of the classic, quintessential writings of Gore Vidal, including previously uncollected essays and unpublished letters.
Gore Vidal S America
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Author : Dennis Altman
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2005-10-28
Gore Vidal S America written by Dennis Altman and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty years. He is both a serious writer and a television and movie celebrity, whose increasingly acerbic picture of the United States guarantees he is both revered and reviled. Gore Vidal's America examines the ways in which Vidal's writings on history, politics, sex and religion throw into focus our understandings of the United States, but also recognizes his versatility and inventiveness as a creative writer, some of whose novels - Julian; Myra Breckinridge; Lincoln; Duluth - are among the important literary works of their time. Ranging from Vidal's early defence of homosexuality in The City and the Pillar (1948) to his most recent writings on the war in Iraq, this book provides a unique perspective on the evolution of post-World War II American society, politics and literature. As Altman writes: “Difficult not to see in the results of the 2004 elections, where the Republican right gained in both the White House and the Senate, proof of Vidal's worse fears, namely that the impact of imperial adventure, big money and religious moralism would increasingly imperil the American Republic."
Burr
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-08-31
Burr written by Gore Vidal and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Fiction categories.
For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton,Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. But he is determined to tell his own story, and he chooses to confide in a young New York City journalist named Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. Together, they explore both Burr's past—and the continuing civic drama of their young nation. Burr is the first novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series, which spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to post-World War II. With their broad canvas and sprawling cast of fictional and historical characters, these novels present a panorama of American politics and imperialism, as interpreted by one of our most incisive and ironic observers.
Gore Vidal
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Author : Robert F. Kiernan
language : en
Publisher: Frederick Ungar
Release Date : 1982
Gore Vidal written by Robert F. Kiernan and has been published by Frederick Ungar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
A critical survey of Vidal's work, treating all of the novels, the short stories and plays as well. Vidal's greatness, says the author, lies in his talent for the small-scale: for the anecdote, the scene, the sentence, all created to the counterpoint of the risque and the elegant. A revealing biographical sketch is followed by an analysis of the Vidalian style, and then by an overall reassessment of the early successes and the later works.
Views From A Window
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Views From A Window written by Gore Vidal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Political Animal
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Author : Heather Neilson
language : en
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Release Date : 2014-12-01
Political Animal written by Heather Neilson and has been published by Monash University Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The late Gore Vidal occupied a unique position within American letters. Born into a political family, he ran for office several times, but was consistently critical of his nation’s political system and its leaders. A prolific writer in several genres, he was also widely known – particularly in the United States – on the basis of his frequent appearances in the various electronic media. In this groundbreaking work examining the central theme of power throughout Vidal’s writings, Heather Neilson focuses primarily on Vidal’s historical fiction. In his novels depicting American history and those set in ancient times, Vidal evokes a world in which deliberately propagated falsehood – ‘disinformation’ – becomes established as truth. Neilson engages with Vidal’s representations of political and religious leaders, and with his deeply ambivalent fascination with the increasingly inescapable influence of the media. She asserts that Vidal’s oeuvre has a Shakespearean resonance in its persistent obsession with the question of what constitutes legitimate power and authority.
Selected Essays Of Gore Vidal
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-06-16
Selected Essays Of Gore Vidal written by Gore Vidal and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.
I Told You So Gore Vidal Talks Politics
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Author : Gore Vidal
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2013-03-26
I Told You So Gore Vidal Talks Politics written by Gore Vidal and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-26 with Political Science categories.
"I exist to say, ‘No, that isn't the way it is,' or ‘What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there's a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there's a hole in the road and if you don't fill it in you'll break the axle of your car. One is not loved for being helpful." Gore Vidal, one of America's foremost essayists, screenwriters, and novelists, died July 31, 2012. He was, in addition, a terrific conversationalist. Dick Cavett once described him as "the best talker since Oscar Wilde." And Vidal was never more eloquent, or caustic, than when let loose on his favorite topic, the history and politics of the United States. This book is made up from four interviews conducted with his long–time interlocutor, the writer and radio host Jon Wiener, in which Vidal grapples with matters evidently close to his heart: the history of the American Empire, the rise of the National Security State, and his own life in politics, both as a commentator and candidate. The interviews cover a twenty–year span, from 1988 to 2008, when Vidal was at the height of his powers. His extraordinary facility for developing an argument, tracing connections between past and present, and drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of America's place in the world, are all on full display. And, of course, it being Gore Vidal, an ample sprinkling of gloriously acerbic one–liners is also provided.