In Gore Vidal's 1988 LINCOLN, the story of the Civil War president is told mostly from John Hay's point of view. The last in Vidal's tetralogy of US political novels (WASHINGTON DC, BURR, and 1876 are the others), LINCOLN provides a nuanced picture of the president universally considered great. Here, Lincoln is very much a calculating politician, ...
Cyrus Spitama is a Zoroastrian and descendent of Zoroaster. He travels to speak with prophets and philosophers, argue theology and come up with a creation theory. Cyrus is gossipy, name-dropping and worldly--as he moves through life, he wittily focuses on its minutiae. In the Vidal tradition, this novel is rich in historical and geographic detail.
PALIMPSEST is the autobiography of Gore Vidal, who always said he would never write one. He begins with his birth in 1925 at West Point, and continues through his life as a page to his grandfather, the populist senator Thomas P. Gore from Oklahoma. In between are Vidal's days at St. Albans school and in the army, and his adventures in the gay life ...
In essay-articles on Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as in new thoughts on 9/11, Vidal expresses his dissenting views on America and its role around the world.
Charles Schuyler, the young journalist from Gore Vidal's BURR, is here 30 years older, and returning to the US from Europe with his fortune obliterated by the panic of 1873. He must now actively pursue a journalistic career and also find a husband for his daughter, Emma, a widow. Mostly, he must help Tilden get elected president, because then ...
Subtitled BLOOD FOR OIL AND THE CHENEY-BUSH JUNTA, Gore Vidal's book explores the oil connections between George Bush's oil days in Texas and the family of Osama bin Laden. Specifically, he calls for an investigation into 9/11 that would include what Bush knew and when he knew it--and why and how he and his associates have profited from it. Long a ...
Gore Vidal's lifelong interest in the United States, and in particular the period of the Founding Fathers, is here on display in his uniquely tendentious take on the first three presidents. Through these portraits, Vidal recreates the historical contexts and the key debates and personalities that established what has been called the world's ...
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American history, debunks, in this historical novel of ...
An omnibus collection of writings--critical, political, and personal--from one of the most venerable figures in American letters. Vidal tackles such subjects as the Kennedys, Tennessee Williams, Americans and sex, and the fiction of France. This volume won the National Book Award in 1993.
The saga of the Sanfords is fleshed out by this prequel to HOLLYWOOD and WASHINGTON, DC. Caroline is set up to marry Del Hay, Secretary of State John Hay's son. Rather than confine herself to a stultified domestic life, Caroline chooses to publish a newspaper and must deal with William Randoph Hearst and his protege, her half-brother Blaise. Other ...
In this brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his.
Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader.
When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency' romantic novel entitled ROGUE DUKE. In Duluth they do it all with word processors. Meanwhile Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, strip-search enthusiast, terrorizes a ...
Thanks to the latest breakthrough in computer software, a cyberpunk- known bleakly as The Hacker- is destroying the tapes that describe the mission of Jesus Christ and His Gospel or Good News. The Sacred Story is vanishing rapidly. Fortunately one tape is Hackerproof, that of Timothy, who in his youth, was Robin to Saint Paul's Batman. Now, in ...
In the pieces collected in this anthology, journalists reflect on how important news stories are commonly squelched because of corporate interests and advertiser demands.
Gore Vidal returns to his favorite subject, "the United States of Amnesia," for this collection of essays, many of which focus on his bête noire, George W. Bush, whom Vidal considers the most reckless and predatory president in American history. In addition, essays written between 1975 and 2004 cover--with caustic wit--such topics as the war on ...
Theodora Hecht Ottinger, known as Teddy, is a test pilot and also a bisexual feminist pop-cultural figure. She is asked by a magazine to interview Kalki, a cult leader who doesn't normally grant interviews. Kalki is actually a crazed veteran of the Vietnam War who fancies himself the incarnation of the god Shiva, and whose burning desire is to ...
First published in 1948, Gore Vidal's THE CITY AND THE PILLAR was one of the first novels depicting positive gay subject matter to reach a mainstream audience. Structured around a love affair, Vidal's novel depicts one man's experiences in the gay scenes of California and New York; the central relationship was based on his own boyhood love for his ...
This book is part of Pluto's 21st birthday series "Get Political", which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. Israel Shahak is a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish Orthodoxy and Hebrew culture, he has consistently ...
This historical novel by the author of BURR and LINCOLN concerns the adventures of brilliant young schoolboy named "T," who becomes involved in the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb during the 1940s. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
THE GOLDEN AGE concludes Vidal's seven-volume series of American historical novels with a tale set between 1939 and 1954--the World War II era and the Cold War years. A movie actress turned journalist and her nephew, a newspaper publisher, provide the vision through which Vidal examines America's evolution into a powerful global empire. The book ...
Gore Vidal's WASHINGTON, D.C.--the final installment in the Narratives of Empire series--takes place between the years 1937 and 1953. His hero, young Peter Sanford, comes from a political family not unlike Vidal's; Sanford shares the story with Senator James Burden Day, who resembles Vidal's grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore of Oklahoma. While the ...
Published with 5 other titles as part of Gore Vidal's work, a novel set in 1917 in Hollywood where the fledgling movie industry is growing. It follows the fortunes of a woman who is catapulted into stardom. First published in 1990.
The publication by Black Sparrow in 1979 of Paul Bowles' Collected Stories sparked the rediscovery of Bowles' works that has brought world renown to the American expatriate writer, for decades resident in Tangier, Morocco. Gore Vidal's Introduction to this large collection remarks "His stories are among the best ever written by an American".
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