Gore Vidal
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[2003]
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Volumes have been written about Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Vidal's does. His consummate skill takes the reader into the minds and private rooms of these great men, illuminating their opinions of one another and their concerns about crafting a workable democracy.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 2
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Orginally published in 1984, Vidal's novel of Lincoln's presidency allows the man to breathe again. As the Civil War ravages his nation, President Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections.-- from publisher's description.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 3
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On a desperate quest to find her father, a missing business tycoon, Ana, a beautiful heiress, ventures into the lush wilderness of the tropical rain forest, accompanied by rugged Brad Eliot, a handsome American working to save the endangered rain forests.
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c2004
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Vidal's essay is an Olympian survey of American Empire, where the war on terror is judged as nonsensical as the "war on dandruff", where America is an "Enron-Pentagon prison", a land of ballooning budget deficits thanks to the growth of a garrison state, tax cuts for the privileged, and of course the creeping totalitarianism of the Ashcroft justice department.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 4
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By 1900 America, now reaching out for empire, is racked by titanic struggles over its own destiny. The novel re-creates a time that woud be remembered as America's Gilded Age: where political bosses rule, where robber barons fight to consolidate their wealth, and where a yellow headline can lead the country to war.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 7
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"The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's American empire novels - a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.".
"The Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War Two and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire....
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Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, brings the reader face to face with some of the greatest men who ever lived, in vivid and unforgettable detail. It makes alive the ancient world in which so many of our modern world's ideas-spiritual, philosophical, political and scientific-were conceived.
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 5
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Follows the career of Caroline Sanford, a brilliant and beautiful newspaper publisher who leaves Washington to become a Hollywood producer and movie star.
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"Celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, politics, and international society, where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made and lost....
14) Burr: a novel
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American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 1
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Re-creates the American political scene of the early 1800's, seen through the memoirs of Aaron Burr.
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p2006
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In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestselling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.
Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theatre, politics, and international society where he has cut a wide swath, recounting achievements and defeats,...
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[1995]
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In 1948, Gore Vidal was a celebrated twenty-two-year-old war novelist about to embark on a career in politics. His future seemed clear. But then he made a choice that changed his life. He published The City and the Pillar, an openly homosexual novel that was taken to be largely autobiographical. "I have read that I was too stupid at the time to know what I was doing," he notes in his introduction to this edition, "but in such matters I have always...
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[2008]
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From the Publisher: Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialists-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,...