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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/ v ɪ ˈ d ɑː l / vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. [1]
Live from Golgotha is a novel by Gore Vidal, an irreverent spoof of the New Testament.Told from the perspective of Saint Timothy as he travels with Saint Paul, the 1992 novel's narrative shifts in time as Timothy and Paul combat a mysterious hacker from the future who is deleting all traces of Christianity.
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-8109-5049-9; I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener (2013) ISBN 978-1-61902-174-7; Gore Vidal History of the National Security State, The Real News Network, introduction by Paul Jay (2014) Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates (2015) ISBN 978-1 ...
Messiah is a satirical novel by Gore Vidal, first published in 1954 in the United States by E.P. Dutton. [2] It is the story of the creation of a new religion, Cavism, which quickly comes to replace the established but failing Christian religion.
Vidal set out to break the mould of novels that up until The City and the Pillar depicted homosexuals as transvestites, lonely bookish boys, or feminine. Vidal purposefully makes his protagonist a strong athlete to challenge superstitions, stereotypes, and prejudices about sex in the United States. To further this theme Vidal wrote the novel in ...
The Narratives of Empire series is a heptalogy of historical novels by American author Gore Vidal, published between 1967 and 2000, which chronicle the dawn-to-decadence history of the "American Empire"; the narratives interweave the personal stories of two families with the personages and events of U.S. history.
1876 is the third historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. It was published in 1976 and details the events of a year described by Vidal as "probably the low point in our republic's history".
The story begins in 1939 and features many of the characters and events that Gore Vidal introduced in his earlier novel, Washington, D.C. This includes the families of conservative Democratic Senator James Burden Day, and powerful newspaper publisher Blaise Sanford.