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Jul 1, 2002 · The American Presidency (The Real Story Series) Paperback – July 1, 2002. by Gore Vidal (Author) 4.2 14 ratings. See all formats and editions. An entertaining, insightful history of the men who've held the office, from the division between Jefferson and Hamilton through Bill Clinton's campaign for national health care.
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Aug 1, 2012 · He was the last American aristocrat: literate, vain, incredibly talented. Where would we be had he kept his homosexuality (a term he hated, he thought everybody was bisexual) hidden and gone into politics?
Aug 2, 2012 · Ten years ago, in The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Vidal wrote – presciently — “Any individual who is able to raise [enough money] to be considered presidential is not going to ...
The American presidency by Gore Vidal. Publication date 1998 Topics Presidents -- United States -- History., Presidents -- United States -- Biography., Presidents ...
Sep 1, 1998 · This delightful essay (only 80 small pages--I read it all in a couple of hours) skewers our historic idols, the American Presidents, including Washington, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, and JFK (whom Vidal calls charming but a very bad and war-mongering President).
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Oct 19, 2015 · But in 1964, the year his play “The Best Man” became a film, with Henry Fonda as a Presidential candidate—Vidal said that an agent’s suggestion that Ronald Reagan play the part had been ...
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( / vɪˈdɑːl / 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] His novels and essays interrogated the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life.
