Gore Vidal
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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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Thieves fall out by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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1876 : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Weekend : a comedy in two acts/ by Gore Vidal. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Dramatists Play Service, 1968Call Number: Loading…
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The city and the pillar : including an essay, Sex and the law, and an afterword by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : New American Library, 1965
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Empire : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Modern Library, 1998
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The best man 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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Point to point navigation : a memoir, 1964 to 2006 by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Doubleday, 2006
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Point to point navigation by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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The American presidency by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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The Smithsonian Institution : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Random House, 1998
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Williwaw by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003
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The city and the pillar : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Vintage International, 2003
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Julian : a novel. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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An evening with Richard Nixon by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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Burr : a novel by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Grand Haven, Michigan : Brilliance Audio, 2019
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The city and the pillar revised. by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
New York : Dutton, 1965
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Burr by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, 1979
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Screening history by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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The decline and fall of the American empire by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
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