Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics
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"Never offend an enemy in a small way," Gore Vidal once wrote
Besides numerous colourful novels, incisive essays and blockbusting screenplays, he was an The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1-878825-15-1 Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999) The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (2001) ISBN -375-72639-X (there is also a much shorter UK edition) Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X Gore Vidal's Tragic Final Decade Denouement One of America's sharpest personalities spent his last decade drunk and lonely, but remained fiery and lusty till the end
Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T
He stared at me with hard, enameled eyes
In an excerpt from his new memoir, 'Baggage,' the actor Alan Cumming remembers the highs and lows of a whisky-soaked evening 20 years ago with the famously combative author at his villa on the Lincoln: A Novel is a 1984 historical novel, part of the Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal
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Edward had to decide whether to give up Wallis for the crown, or the crown to To be perfect for television is all a President has to
"In America, if you want a successful career in politics, there is one subject you must never mention, and that is politics
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Vidal has been reported as describing their relationship as "two men who decided to spend their lives together"
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Gore Vidal always kept a fire burning in the grate, his nephew Burr Steers said as we stood in the author's living room in Los Angeles, "even when it was 110 degrees outside
Alexander applied the scalpels of irony and sarcasm, but—most devastatingly—he allowed Vidal to eviscerate himself
Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T
Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T
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Vidal's narrator is Eugene Luther, who considers the 1950s from a vantage of half a century, recalling the spread of a peculiar religious cult based on the figure of John Cave, who
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The hero of Vidal’s Edgar Box novels, Peter Sargeant II—who is a heterosexual stand-in for Vidal himself—is a full-time publicist, accidental sleuth, and
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Gore Vidal, the American author, playwright and commentator who became a celebrity for his writing as much as for his outspokenness on the issues of the day, died
” Pesci: “Which door do I leave from, asshole?” Some surmise that Vidal’s grand bequest to
His isolationism philosophy may have been his greatest legacy to his grandson, Gore Vidal
Americans were fed the story of Timothy McVeigh’s trial and execution as a simple, unquestionable narrative: he was guilty, he was evil, and he acted largely alone
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When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic
When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust
Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T
They also knew his patrician manner, transatlantic accent, and witty
Edwards worked with playwright James Graham again in 2021, playing Gore Vidal in Best of Enemies at the Young Vic
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
My fellow panelist was Gore Vidal (1950–2003; his death) Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; January 28, 1929 – September 22, 2003) was the longtime companion of American writer Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal was born Eugene Louis Vidal in 1925 in West Point, New York, to Nina (Gore) and West Point aeronautics instructor and aviation pioneer Eugene Luther Vidal
The author of more than twenty novels--including The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and Lincoln--as well as several books of nonfiction, plays, and screenplays, Gore Vidal has been a
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Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every Vidal was a master of the lifelong feud and his disdain for Buckley was easily matched by his dislike of his literary contemporary and polar opposite Norman Mailer (who had his own separate long