21. Gore Vidal: The Independent Institute gore vidal is hailed as one of the most remarkable cultural and political critics of our time. Born at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=411

22. Salon | The Salon Interview: Gore Vidal BY CHRIS HAINES gore vidal puts us at ease with history, probably because he has spent so much time at its elbow. Born at West Point and raised in http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/01/cov_si_14int.html

T A B L E T A L K Why is there such a backlash against memoirs? Join the discussion in the Books section of Table Talk R E C E N T L Y Russell Banks By Cynthia Joyce Haruki Murakami By Laura Miller Allan Gurganus By Dwight Garner Mark Leyner By Laura Miller Doris Lessing By Dwight Garner INTERVIEW ARCHIVE R E V I E W S Preston Falls By David Gates This powerful novel of yuppie disillusionment is about a fading, flabby New York PR representative and his family gore's wars THE SALON INTERVIEW GORE VIDAL GORE VIDAL RAILS AT THE EMPIRE, DEFENDS THE INTERNET AND SAYS HE'D MAKE A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN COUSIN AL. BY CHRIS HAINES G ore Vidal puts us at ease with history, probably because he has spent so much time at its elbow. Born at West Point and raised in Washington, D.C., the grandson of the legendary blind Sen. Thomas Gore and kin to Jimmy Carter, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and the current vice president, Vidal has woven his sitting room perspective of American politics into novels like "Burr," "Lincoln," "1876" and "Empire." It is his familial view of great people and events that makes them feel real. Vidal's contributions to popular culture both as an early writer for television and as a Hollywood screenwriter expose human folly and frailty, in a more contemporary and occasionally picaresque mode. Compare, for instance, "Visit to a Small Planet" or "The Best Man" to "Suddenly, Last Summer" or "Myra Breckinridge." His forthcoming novel, "The Smithsonian Institution," returns to his favorite political and sexual themes.

23. Gore Vidal, Octocontrarian Marc Cooper interviews gore vidal about an America that is increasingly controlled by corporations and suggests that the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the Iraq http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051107/cooper

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Encyclopedia Discussion Forgot Your Password? Not a Member Yet? JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Advertising Opportunities Terms of Service Alpha Index: A-B C-F G-K L-Q ... T-Z Subjects: A-B C-E F-L M-Z Vidal, Gore (b. 1925) page: The multifaceted [Eugene] Gore Vidal [Jr.] is a novelist, playwright, essayist, mystery writer (under the pseudonym Edgar Box), screenwriter, social critic, literary critic, congressional candidate, political activist, and actor. Entering the army during World War II while in his teens and rising to the rank of sergeant, Vidal has had no formal higher education. He is important for the gay literary heritage because of the straightforwardness with which he has pursued gay themes and included gay characters in his work, beginning in his teens when he wrote his first novel, Williwaw Sponsor Message. He has also steadily upped the ante about what sorts of gay material could be included in his mainstream works and as a result has made it easier for a wide range of other writers to find public acknowledgment of their material. Although the grandson of a United States Senator, Vidal feels uncomfortable in America because of his sexuality and has lived mostly in Italy since the mid-1960s, sharing his life with his companion Howard Austen.

25. Democracy Now! | Gore Vidal On Bush's Inaugural Address: "The Most Un-American S We take a look at President Bush s inaugural address with gore vidal, one of America s most respected writers and thinkers and the author of more than 20 http://www.democracynow.org/2005/1/25/gore_vidal_on_bushs_inaugural_address

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27. Gore Vidal SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) American author and social critic gore vidal was rushed to hospital in the southern Italian town of Salerno Friday after suffering http://www.levity.com/corduroy/vidal.htm

Gore Vidal Friday March 22 1:50 PM EST U.S. author Gore Vidal in hospital in Italy SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) - American author and social critic Gore Vidal was rushed to hospital in the southern Italian town of Salerno Friday after suffering a hemmorrhage but was in a stable condition, doctors said. Vidal, 70, was taken to the San Giovanni hospital shortly after 6 a.m. following a rectal hemmorrhage. A hospital official said he would undergo tests Saturday and a decision would be made then on how long to keep him in hospital. Vidal, controversial author of such best-sellers as "Lincoln," "Myra Breckinridge" and "Burr" plus essays and screenplays, has a villa on the Italian coast. REUTER Sunday March 24 2:34 PM EST Gore Vidal "Doing Well" In Italian Hospital SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) REUTER The American writer Gore Vidal , b. West Point, N.Y., Oct. 3, 1925, achieved success with his first novel, Williwaw (1946), inspired by his wartime service in the Aleutians. The City and the Pillar (1948), an account of homosexual life in the United States, and The Judgment of Paris (1952), a modernization of the ancient myth, won the respect of critics.

28. Isebrand, Gore Vidal Pages, E-pamphlets, New York Politics, IseFire IseFire and gore vidal Pages reliable news and liberal views plus epamphlets. http://www.isebrand.com/Gore_Vidal_Pages.htm

the archives ESSAY selections Twelve Caesers Doc Reuben Two Sisters Sex Is Politics ... Pink Triangle, Yellow Star complete Monotheism and Its Discontents The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh The End of Liberty The Enemy Within ... We Are The Patriots HISTORY select passages Burr Empire Washington D.C. BIBLIOGRAPHY ... THE GORE VIDAL INDEX by Harry Kloman The Gore Vidal Index is the most comprehensive Vidal site on the Internet. CHRISTINE SMITH Christine has great Vidal -related content on her site THE GORE VIDAL PAGES Gore Vidal confidently delivers some of the most compelling, insightful, and witty observations on American history and politics of any American writer. The Boston Globe declared him simply America's "greatest living man of letters." Born in 1925 as Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Jr., he was raised within D.C.'s political class, attending St. Alban's prep school, Los Alamos Ranch School, and Philips Exeter Academy with many of America's future political and business leaders. He is the grandson of Oklahoma's first Senator (T. P. Gore), son of a West Pointer who served in FDR's administration, stepbrother of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and friend to President John F. Kennedy, as well as to many writers, such as Tennessee Williams, and actors, such as Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Vidal served in WWII as a Warrant Officer onboard a vessel in the Aleutians. In 1960 he ran for Congress from New York. Vidal lost the election but made a tremendously strong showing running as a Democrat in overwhelmingly Republican Dutchess County. While campaigning he earned the friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt, one of his enthusiastic supporters. His decision not to run again in 1962a mid-term election year in which Democrats were swept into office in large numbershas given rise to one of American political history's more interesting "what if's."

29. QuotationReference.com: Gore Vidal (gore vidal). If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. (gore vidal) http://www.quotationreference.com/quotefinder.php?strt=1&subj=Gore Vidal&byax=1

30. PAL: Gore Vidal (1925-) Views from a window conversations with gore vidal. selected, arr., and introduced by Robert J. Stanton; edited by Robert J. Stanton and gore vidal. http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/vidal.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Gore Vidal (1925 - ) The GV Index PBS: American Masters, GV Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present ... Home Page Source: Wired for Books Primary Works A search for the King, a 12th century legend. NY: Dutton, 1950. PS3543.I26 S39 Messiah. NY: Dutton, 1954. PS3543.I26 M4 Visit to a small planet; a comedy akin to a vaudeville. Boston: Little, Brown 1957. PS3543.I26 V52 Rocking the boat. NY: Dell Publishing, 1963, 1951. PS3543 .I26 R6 Julian, a novel. Boston: Little, Brown 1964. PS3543 .I26 J8 The judgment of Paris. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965, 1952. PS3543.I26 J8 The city and the pillar: including an essay, Sex and the law, and an afterword. NY: New American Library, 1965. PS3543 .I26 C5 Romulus; the Broadway adaptation. NY: Grove Press 1966. PS3543.I26 R65 Washington, D. C.; a novel. Boston: Little, Brown 1967. PS3543.I26 W3

31. Gore Vidal Interview With Don Swaim gore vidal is interviewed by Don Swaim of CBS Radio. http://wiredforbooks.org/gorevidal/

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interview with Gore Vidal Gore Vidal, author of Burr Hollywood, Lincoln, Myra Breckinridge , and , talks with Don Swaim about satire, watching movies, blasphemy, freedom of religion, politics, and his controversial novel, Live from Golgatha , in this 1992 interview. Listen to the Gore Vidal interview with Don Swaim, 1992 (35 min. 10 sec.) Download Free RealPlayer or Search the RealPlayer Archives for a player that will work with older computers (note: version 5.0 or higher is required) For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio. Wired for Books home

32. Queer History Born into a wealthy family in 1925, Eugene Luther gore vidal has politics in his blood. vidal s maternal grandfather was Thomas P. gore, a powerful U.S. http://www.planetout.com/news/history/archive/gorevidal.html

Network Properties Gay.com Kleptomaniac.com Advocate.com Out.com OutTraveler.com HIVPlusmag.com Alyson Bookstore PlanetOut Inc. Search Opinion Queer History Week in Review Coming Out Best of 2007 Who Is Gore Vidal? by David Bianco More Columns: Fresno Greta Garbo Emily Dickinson More... Interact: Talk about it About David Bianco Born into a wealthy family in 1925, Eugene Luther Gore Vidal has politics in his blood. Vidal's maternal grandfather was Thomas P. Gore, a powerful U.S. senator from Oklahoma. Al Gore is a distant cousin. John F. Kennedy was his stepbrother-in-law. But it's as a novelist and critic that Vidal actually made his mark. After graduating high school in 1943, Vidal enlisted in the army. He never saw battle and, out of boredom, began writing his first novel. Based on firsthand experiences aboard an army freighter, Williwaw (1946) was published along with a host of other postwar war novels and received high marks. Eschewing college, Vidal moved to New York to write. His second novel disappointed him, though it received good reviews, and he decided to take a bigger risk with his next one. Although The City and the Pillar (1948) is now considered a classic of gay literature, its frank discussion of an affair between two young men and its daring suggestion that homosexual relationships were natural made reviewers' tongues wag. Vidal dedicated the novel to "J.T." and loosely based one of the characters on his first male lover, Jimmie Trimble. Despite the controversial subject matter, the novel rushed onto the bestseller lists.

33. The RCP Blog The Progressive is carrying an interview with gore vidal in this month s issue. It s really hard to capture the unhingedness of vidal without reading the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog/2006/07/gore_unhinged.html

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34. Imperial Amnesia -- In These Times As a novelist, historian, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, politician and raconteur, gore vidal has been a voice of reason and dissent since the http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1638/

@import url(/site?css=include/css_content/); Skip navigation. Make a tax-deductible contribution today and get exclusive Vonnegut gear! donate newsletter store members ... links Culture > November 2, 2004 > Web Only Imperial Amnesia By Emily Udell In This Article Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (Nation Books) By Gore Vidal Share Digg del.icio.us Reddit Newsvine As a novelist, historian, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, politician and raconteur, Gore Vidal has been a voice of reason and dissent since the publication of his first novel The City and the Pillar, in 1948. The author of Lincoln and Julian recently spoke with In These Times and its affiliated radio show , about his latest book Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia. Does a victory by either George W. Bush or John Kerry make a difference for the future of what you call the American empire? In Imperial America What is your assessment of how the American media has covered the Iraq war and the presidential campaign? As you write in Imperial America

35. Gore Vidal Interview -- Academy Of Achievement gore vidal Well, it was conventional in the sense that I was at the Republican Convention that nominated Wendell Wilkie in 1940. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/vid0int-1

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36. Gore Vidal - Salon.com By Louis Bayard Apr 19, 2003; gore vidal Congress should investigate how much By Gary Kamiya Apr 24, 2002; gore vidal joins the blackhelicopter crowd http://dir.salon.com/topics/gore_vidal/

Search: Salon The Web Sunday, Jan 27, 2008 Books Comics Community Life ... Gore Vidal (23 stories) Gore Vidal Too much Gore Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous and potentially irrelevant body of work. By Allen Barra Jan 3, 2007 Founding sinners While Thomas Jefferson never freed his slaves, George Washington did, despite his wife's wishes. Historians are finally coming to terms with America's oldest wound. By Laura Miller Nov 25, 2003 The Fix Eddie and Christy are the cutest, Bobby De Niro is the hairiest, and David and Victoria Beckham are the horniest. Plus: A romantic comedy about SARS? By Karen Croft May 7, 2003 The sound bite and the fury Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff. By Louis Bayard Apr 19, 2003 Gore Vidal Congress should investigate how much the Bush "oil junta" knew in advance about Sept. 11. This and other bombshells from American literature's leading provocateur. By Gary Kamiya Apr 24, 2002

37. Vidal Caught In Power Play In a scary echo of the classic Roman Polanski film starring Jack Nicholson, L.A. Water Power is messing with gore vidal s life. http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/rush_molloy/2007/07/11/2007-07-11_vidal_caught

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39. Gore Vidal Quotes 56 quotes and quotations by gore vidal. gore vidal A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. gore vidal All children alarm their parents, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/gore_vidal.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Gore Vidal Quotes Type: Novelist Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: October 3 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Gore Vidal Related Authors: Ernest Hemingway Richard Bach Anne Rice William Faulkner ... Will Thomas A good deed never goes unpunished. Gore Vidal A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. Gore Vidal All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. Gore Vidal All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. Gore Vidal Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. Gore Vidal Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. Gore Vidal As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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Web Hosting by Netfirms Free Domain Names by Netfirms ... http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml The Observer, Sunday 27 th October 2002, Review Section, Pages 1-4 The Enemy Within Gore Vidal is America’s most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration. Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America’s response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish Vidal’s remarkable personal polemic urging a shocking new interpretation of who was to blame. On 24 August, 1814, things looked very dark for freedom's land. That was the day the British captured Washington DC and set fire to the Capitol and the White House. President Madison took refuge in the nearby Virginia woods where he waited patiently for the notoriously short attention span of the Brits to kick in, which it did. They moved on and what might have been a Day of Utter Darkness turned out to be something of a bonanza for the DC building trades and up-market realtors. One year after 9/11, we still don't know by whom we were struck that infamous Tuesday, or for what true purpose. But it is fairly plain to many civil-libertarians that 9/11 put paid not only to much of our fragile Bill of Rights but also to our once-envied system of government which had taken a mortal blow the previous year when the Supreme Court did a little dance in 5/4 time and replaced a popularly elected president with the oil and gas Cheney/Bush junta.

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