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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Julian by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Empire : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Washington, D.C. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Boston : Little, Brown, 1967
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Julian. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Hollywood : a novel of America in the 1920s by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Random House, 1990
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Three by Box : the complete mysteries of Edgar Box [i.e. G. Vidal]. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Random House, 1978
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Duluth by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Random House, 1983
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Lincoln : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Random House, 1984
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United States : essays : 1952-1992 by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Williwaw : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : E.P. Dutton & co., 1946
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Hollywood a novel of America in the 1920s by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Random House, 1990
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Messiah by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Burr : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982) by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Vintage Books, 1983
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Dreaming war : blood for oil and the Cheney-Bush junta by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Washington, D. C. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Boston : Little, Brown, 1967
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Dark green, bright red. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : E.P. Dutton, 1950
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Messiah. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Dutton, 1954
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Inventing a nation : Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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The judgment of Paris. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York, Dutton, 1952
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