The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (Vintage International.
Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art.
American writer Gore Vidal is known for many popular screenplays, plays and novels, as well as other literary works. He wrote and published more than 200 essays and 24 novels throughout his career, which included a venture into politics, a stint as a popular talk-show guest and even running for political office.
The rest of this sampler contains famous essays on gay equality, pornography, and some of his finest political essays on the American constitution and its agents of corruption. No writer has exposed the capriciousness and deceptions at the heart of America as coolly and (rightly) cynically as Vidal. (Gore).
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From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidal's United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original literary intelligence of the post—World War II years.
Gore Vidal brought together his briskly readable essays of four decades—critical, personal, and political—in United States (1993). Susan Sontag’s essays on difficult European writers, avant-garde film, politics, photography, and the language of illness embodied the probing intellectual spirit of the 1960s.
Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states.
Vidal's daunting career has encompassed 24 novels, 11 essay collections, six plays, two memoirs and countless occasional writings. This new collection is an entry point into this literary giant's w.
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In his essay Drugs, Vidal explains that the drug. problem of the United States could be solved simply by legalizing the drugs which are. the base cause of our problem. Gore Vidal gives examples which he believes are the. reasons why we should, and why we will not allow drugs to be legalized within. the United States.
Gore Vidal has been entertaining, and occasionally outraging, the American public for fifty years. In the course of his long career, Vidal has set new intellectual and artistic standards for American historical fiction and has also established himself in the first rank of contemporary social satirists.
Weise, sales manager at Cleis Press, has collected 13 essays (reprinted primarily from the New York Review of Books and all but one available in United States 1952-1992) and three interviews (all.
Gore Vidal was an American author who was best known for his political commentary and television appearances. Born in 1925, Vidal rarely had any kind words for his nation, often referring to the United States as a decadent empire ruled by a militaristic dictatorship.
Gore Vidal always hinted at a sexual element between the Jewish prince and his Roman betrayer, but the remake seems uninterested in exploring gay subtext Published: 17 Aug 2016 Why has Hollywood.
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In this collection of essays, noted novelist and critic Vidal turns his acerbic wit on the United States. Never shy about expressing his opinion, Vidal questions U.S. assumptions regarding the Okla.
Gore Vidal has been described as the last “noble defender” of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing America - those who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White, and Blue - by demonstrating that those whose protest arbitrary and secret government, those who defend the bill of rights, those who seek to.