Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( ; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the United States Senate (for California).A grandson of U.S. Senator Thomas Gore, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in ''The Nation'', the ''New Statesman'', the ''New York Review of Books'', and ''Esquire'' magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer.
As a novelist, Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His style of narration evoked the time and place of his stories, and delineated the psychology of his characters. His third novel, ''The City and the Pillar'' (1948), offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, the plot being about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship.
In the historical novel genre, Vidal recreated the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361–363) in ''Julian'' (1964). Julian was the Roman emperor who attempted to re-establish Roman polytheism to counter Christianity. In social satire, ''Myra Breckinridge'' (1968) explores the mutability of gender roles and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores. In ''Burr'' (1973) and ''Lincoln'' (1984), both part of his ''Narratives of Empire'' series of novels, each protagonist is presented as "A Man of the People" and as "A Man" in a narrative exploration of how the public and private facets of personality affect the national politics of the United States. Provided by Wikipedia
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Williwaw, by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York, E.P. Dutton & co., 1946Call Number: Loading…
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Lincoln : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Grand Haven, Michigan : Brilliance Audio, 2019
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Myra Breckinridge by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Three: Williwaw. A thirsty evil. Julian the Apostate. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Julian [and] Williwaw, [and] The Judgement of Paris, [and] Messiah, [and] The City and the Pillar by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Heineman : Octopus , 1979Other Authors: “…Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012…”
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Duluth by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Random House, 1983
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Empire by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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The best man ; a play about politics. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Boston : Little, Brown, 1960
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Visit to a small planet : a comedy akin to a vaudeville by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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The season of comfort. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York, E. P. Dutton, 1949
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Messiah by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Bantam Books, 1972
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Thieves fall out by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
London : Hard Case Crime/Titan Books, 2015
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Empire : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Creation : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Random House, 1981
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The golden age : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Vintage Books, 2001
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The golden age by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Doubleday, 2000
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Kalki : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Creation : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Visit to a small planet : a comedy akin to a vaudeville by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Burr: a novel. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York, Random House 1973
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