Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal at the Union Square Barnes & Noble to be interviewed by Leonard Lopate to discuss his life and his photographic memoir, Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare by David Shankbone

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Gore Vidal was born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. on October 3, 1925 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He did not go to college but attended St. Albans School in Washington and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1943. He enlisted in the Army, where he became first mate on a freight supply ship in the Aleutian Islands. His first novel, Williwaw, was published in 1946 when he was twenty-one years old and working as an associate editor at the publishing company E. P. Dutton. The City and the Pillar was about a handsome, athletic young Virginia man who gradually discovers that he is homosexual, which caused controversy in the publishing world. The New York Times refused to advertise the novel and gave a negative review of it and future novels. He had such trouble getting subsequent novels reviewed that he turned to writing mysteries under the pseudonym Edgar Box and then gave up novel-writing altogether for a time. Once he moved to Hollywood, he wrote television dramas, screenplays, and plays. His films included I Accuse, Suddenly Last Summer with Tennessee Williams, Is Paris Burning? with Francis Ford Coppola, and Ben-Hur. His most successful play was The Best Man, which he also adapted into a film. He started writing novels again in the 1960's including Julian, Washington, D.C., Myra Breckenridge, Burr, Myron, 1876, Lincoln, Hollywood, Live From Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal, and The Golden Age. He also published two collections of essays entitled The Second American Revolution, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1982 and United States: Essays 1952-1992. In 2009, he received the National Book Awards lifetime achievement award. He died from complications of pneumonia on July 31, 2012 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Lincoln … (més)

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Narratives of Empire

Myra Breckinridge

Peter Sargeant Death Mysteries

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Obres de Gore Vidal

Lincoln 2,389 exemplars, 38 ressenyes

Burr 2,169 exemplars, 50 ressenyes

Julian 1,686 exemplars, 31 ressenyes

Creation 1,422 exemplars, 23 ressenyes

Empire 1,169 exemplars, 11 ressenyes

1876 1,162 exemplars, 16 ressenyes

Palimpsest: A Memoir 1,005 exemplars, 14 ressenyes

Myra Breckinridge 880 exemplars, 23 ressenyes

Washington, D.C. 822 exemplars, 10 ressenyes

Hollywood 766 exemplars, 9 ressenyes

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace 690 exemplars, 7 ressenyes

L'Edat d'or 681 exemplars, 10 ressenyes

United States: Essays 1952-1992 666 exemplars, 8 ressenyes

Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal 614 exemplars, 14 ressenyes

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson 601 exemplars, 12 ressenyes

Kalki 579 exemplars, 10 ressenyes

The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories (Autor) 546 exemplars, 6 ressenyes

Messiah 452 exemplars, 8 ressenyes

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 436 exemplars, 5 ressenyes

Myra Breckinridge [and] Myron 435 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta 434 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

The Smithsonian Institution 412 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 375 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

Duluth 370 exemplars, 8 ressenyes

Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia 310 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Myron 242 exemplars, 6 ressenyes

The Judgment of Paris 214 exemplars, 6 ressenyes

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal 189 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

The City and the Pillar 182 exemplars, 1 ressenya

A Search for the King 176 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

At Home: Essays 1982-1988 164 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Williwaw 161 exemplars, 7 ressenyes

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire 148 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Two Sisters 145 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Death in the Fifth Position (Autor) 142 exemplars, 5 ressenyes

Matters of Fact and of Fiction (Essays 1973-1976) 139 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings, 1960-1998 135 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

A Thirsty Evil 130 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 130 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

The City and the Pillar {revised} 126 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

Screening History 121 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories 113 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Thieves Fall Out (Hard Case Crime) 104 exemplars, 7 ressenyes

Death Likes It Hot 103 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Homage To Daniel Shays: Collected Essays 101 exemplars, 5 ressenyes

Death Before Bedtime 97 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

Vidal in Venice 89 exemplars

The Essential Gore Vidal 83 exemplars

The Best Man [Play] 81 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

The City and the Pillar [revised and unexpurgated] 79 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Visit to a Small Planet 78 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Deadly Sins (Col·laborador) 77 exemplars

Dark Green, Bright Red 76 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Julian / Williwaw / The Judgement of Paris / Messiah / The City and the… 71 exemplars, 1 ressenya

An Evening with Richard Nixon 66 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Virgin Islands 64 exemplars

The American Presidency 64 exemplars

Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 62 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare 59 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Suddenly, Last Summer [1959 film] (Screenwriter) 58 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

The City and the Pillar, Revised: Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and… 57 exemplars

Views from a Window: Conversations With Gore Vidal 57 exemplars

In a Yellow Wood 52 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box 50 exemplars

Best Television Plays 41 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Sex, Death, and Money 34 exemplars

The Season of Comfort 34 exemplars

I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener 32 exemplars

La Fine Della Liberta: Verso Un Nuovo Totalitarismo? 31 exemplars

A View from the Diners Club 28 exemplars

Rocking the boat 27 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Reflections upon a sinking ship 27 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Williwaw / A Thirsty Evil / Julian 18 exemplars

Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on… (Autor) 17 exemplars

Myra Breckinridge [1970 film] (Screenwriter) 17 exemplars

Conversations with Gore Vidal (Literary Conversations Series) 16 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Lincoln [1988 TV mini series] (Writer) 16 exemplars

Myra Breckinridge / Myron / Kalki / Duluth 12 exemplars

Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation of Romulas the Great (Autor) 9 exemplars

Gore Vidal's State of the Union: Nation Essays 1958-2005 8 exemplars

Cry Shame! 8 exemplars

The Sicilian [1987 film] (Writer) 7 exemplars

Creación I 7 exemplars

Creación II 7 exemplars

Dangerous Voyage 6 exemplars

Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation and the Original Romulus the Great by… (Contributor & Introduction) 6 exemplars

L'edat d'or : I 5 exemplars

Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts 5 exemplars

The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 - 1982 5 exemplars

Great American Families 4 exemplars

Ensayos 1952-2001 4 exemplars

L'edat d'or : II 4 exemplars

The Best Man [1964 film] (Screenwriter) 4 exemplars

Il canarino e la miniera. Saggi letterari 1956 - 2000 3 exemplars

The Luminous Years: Portraits at Mid-Century 3 exemplars

A Thirsty Evil, Including On Pornography--an Essay 3 exemplars

Judgement of Paris Revised & Abridged By the Author 3 exemplars

The City and the Pillar, Revised Edition 3 exemplars

Lincoln- Burr- 1876- Washington D. C.- Empire- Hollywood (Six Volumes)… 2 exemplars

Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: What Should Be Done? 2 exemplars

Democrazia tradita 6-1 2 exemplars

Three Plays 2 exemplars

Das ist nicht Amerika!: Essays 2 exemplars

Trilogia dell'impero: La fine della liberta, Le menzogne dell'impero e… 2 exemplars

The Best TV Plays 2 exemplars

Novels of Gore Vidal � � � � � � � � � 1 exemplars

Sex is Politics - and Vice Versa 1 exemplars

Hükümdar 1 exemplars

Lincoln: A Novel - Part 2 of 2 1 exemplars

The End of Liberty 1 exemplars

Lincoln: A Novel - Part 1 of 2 1 exemplars

Julian / Lincoln / Burr 1 exemplars

Epistle to the New Age (in Granta: History - BUFORD) 1 exemplars

Die ungeliebte Leiche | The Blessing Way | Death Likes It Hot 1 exemplars

De Fato E De Ficção, Ensaios Contra A Corrente 1 exemplars

A idade do ouro: romance 1 exemplars

Julian - Vidal Gore [KSIÄĹťKA] 1 exemplars

Eugene Luther Vidal 1 exemplars

The Robin {short story} 1 exemplars, 1 ressenya

A Moment of Green Laurel {short story} 1 exemplars

The Zenner Trophy {short story} 1 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Erlinda and Mr. Coffin {short story} 1 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Three stratagems {short story} 1 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Il mondo di Watergate 1 exemplars

Dawn Powell: una scrittrice americana (in The Golden Spur) 1 exemplars

Novel, A 1 exemplars

Paolo 1 exemplars

Naiset kirjastossa 1 exemplars

The Ladies in the Library {short story} 1 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Art of Fiction 1 exemplars

Un garçon près de la rivière 1 exemplars

Se controlli i media è fatta 1 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Stworzenie świata 1 exemplars

Patria e imperio: ensayos politicos (Los Libros de Sisifo) (Spanish… 1 exemplars

E domani ancora guerra: la crisi dell'impero USA 1 exemplars

Four separate Historical Novels of America: Burr, Empire, Lincoln, 1876. 1 exemplars

Monsters In Orbit/World Between 1 exemplars

Was Lincoln Bisexual? [Printout] 1 exemplars

The Civil War 1 exemplars

La menagerie des hommes illustres (French Edition) 1 exemplars

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També de Gore Vidal

Tarzan of the Apes (Introducció, algunes edicions) 4,369 exemplars, 111 ressenyes

La copa daurada (Pròleg, algunes edicions; Introducció, algunes edicions) 2,480 exemplars, 23 ressenyes

The Art of the Personal Essay (Col·laborador) 1,227 exemplars, 8 ressenyes

Collected Stories (Introducció, algunes edicions) 462 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (Col·laborador) 304 exemplars

Gattaca [1997 film] (Actor) 297 exemplars, 8 ressenyes

The Best American Essays 2002 (Col·laborador) 208 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (Pròleg, algunes edicions) 197 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

Atheism: A Reader (Col·laborador) 172 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (Pròleg, algunes edicions) 163 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Selected Speeches and Writings (Introducció) 156 exemplars

The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (Col·laborador) 150 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits (Introducció) 148 exemplars

Granta 32: History (Col·laborador) 140 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to… (Col·laborador) 138 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each… (Col·laborador) 127 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (Col·laborador) 124 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Best American Essays 1992 (Col·laborador) 119 exemplars

The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (Col·laborador) 114 exemplars

The Christopher Street reader (Col·laborador) 112 exemplars

Confessions of an Art Addict (Pròleg, algunes edicions) 107 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (Pròleg) 106 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Celluloid Closet [1995 film] 82 exemplars, 4 ressenyes

Caligula [1979 film] (Screenwriter) 81 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader (Introducció) 72 exemplars, 1 ressenya

India in Mind (Col·laborador) 71 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

All Trivia: A Collection of Reflections & Aphorisms (Pròleg, algunes edicions) 64 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Best American Essays 1986 (Col·laborador) 63 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Roma [1972 film] 60 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Edith Wharton omnibus (Introducció) 59 exemplars, 3 ressenyes

Gay Sunshine Interviews. Vol. 1 (Interviewee) 58 exemplars

Why We Fight [2005 film] (Col·laborador) 48 exemplars, 2 ressenyes

With Honors [1994 film] (Actor) 46 exemplars

The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self (Col·laborador) 46 exemplars

10 Short Plays (Col·laborador) 45 exemplars

What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential… (Introducció) 43 exemplars

Best American Plays: Fifth Series, 1957-1963 (Col·laborador) 37 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of… (Col·laborador) 27 exemplars, 1 ressenya

The Signet Book of Short Plays (Col·laborador) 27 exemplars

Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel (Col·laborador) 22 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She [2005 TV Documentary film] (Narrador) 21 exemplars, 1 ressenya

Bob Roberts [1992 film] 21 exemplars

The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships… (Col·laborador) 18 exemplars

A Bush & Botox World (Pròleg) 17 exemplars

The Left Handed Gun [1958 film] (Original play) 16 exemplars

New World Writing: Fourth Mentor Selection (Col·laborador) 12 exemplars

Kennedys: Stories of Life and Death from an American Family (Col·laborador) 11 exemplars

New World Writing: First Mentor Selection (Col·laborador) 10 exemplars

Against the Beast: An Anti-Imperialist Reader (Introducció) 10 exemplars

Film Scripts Four: Darling, a Hard Days Night, the Best Man (Col·laborador) 5 exemplars

Best of Enemies [2015 film] (Actor) 2 exemplars

What Makes a Man G.I.B.* *Good in Bed (Epíleg) 2 exemplars

Short Plays for Reading and Acting (Col·laborador) 1 exemplars

Playboy Magazine ~ December 1987 (Brigitte Nielsen) (Interview) 1 exemplars

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Gore Vidal

On Point, diumenge, març 2, 2003 a les 0am

Gore Vidal debat Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta.

Lucid, insightful and razor-sharp, Gore Vidal has been taking on the American Empire for nearly half a century. As war with Iraq looms, the legendary author and essayist is in high dudgeon. A night with the prolific, ever-engaging, and right now angry, Gore Vidal. (Shortride)

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Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal debat Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare .

If anyone's life is worth recounting, it's Gore Vidal's. The celebrated writer not only made his mark on literature over the past six decades, he also had a front row seat to history. His father romanced Amelia Earhart; he feuded with Eleanor Roosevelt and William F. Buckley among many others; and he went shooting with John F. Kennedy. Kurt finds out that despite working on this chronicle of his life, Gore Vidal isn't thinking about posterity. (Shortride)… (més)

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