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 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 U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. 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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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 2006
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1988
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1984
Published 1984
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1950
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1964
Published 1964
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1968
Published 1968
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1950
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1995
Published 1995
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1999
Published 1999
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1968
Published 1968
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1987
Published 1987
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1978
Published 1978
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1952
Published 1952
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1962
Published 1962
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1972
Published 1972
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1959
Published 1959
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1990
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by Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
Published 1973
Published 1973
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Published 2006
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