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1. www.washingtonian.com › 2015/11/08 › gore-vidalsGore Vidal's Final Feud - Washingtonian

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   Nov 8, 2015 · The vitriol continued in dueling Esquire articles by each, eventually triggering a lawsuit by Buckley that lasted three years and, according to Nina Straight, Vidal’s half sister, cost Vidal $1 million in legal fees before Buckley dropped the matter.

2. www.esquire.com › gore-vidal-norman-mailer-0591Mailer and Vidal: The Big Schmooze - Esquire

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   Aug 1, 2012 · Mailer and Vidal: The Big Schmooze. For years, they jabbed and slugged and said mean things. In the winter of 1990, at the Plaza Hotel, on a blustering afternoon, their epic feud ended in a...

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3. www.latimes.com › la-bk-gore-vidal-1989/08/04Vidal's Vitriol Spills on Many in The Nation - Los Angeles Times

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   Aug 4, 1989 · While the latest essay echoes many of Vidal’s past positions, especially about the U.S. defense budget, it seems to strike an even more strident tone than usual.

4. mg.co.za › article › 1998/08/21-vidals-vitriolVidal’s vitriol – The Mail & Guardian

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   Aug 21, 1998 · / 21 August 1998. Vidal’s vitriol. By Staff Reporter. Digby Ricci THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION by Gore Vidal (Knopf) One hates to bow to conventional wisdom, but Gore Vidal really is a far...

5. archive.nytimes.com › 03 › 01Buckley Drops Vidal Suit, Settles With Esquire - The New York ...

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   Mr. Gingrich confirmed that Esquire would publish a statement in its November issue disavowing "the most vivid statements" of the Vidal article, calling Mr. Buckley "racist, antiblack, anti-Semitic...

6. www.thetimes.com › article › the-twin-sources-ofThe twin sources of Vidal’s vitriol

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   And I must say that his extreme hostility to America’s post-1945 pseudo-empire — sustained relentlessly through the decades — looks much less repellent and a lot wiser than it did before the Bush-Cheney years. Vidal ruined his case by exaggeration, of course, and absurd moral equivalence.

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   How much did Vidal's vitriol cost Esquire?

   • The vitriol continued in dueling Esquire articles by each, eventually triggering a lawsuit by Buckley that lasted three years and, according to Nina Straight, Vidal’s half sister, cost Vidal $1 million in legal fees before Buckley dropped the matter.

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   Did Vidal come to the Plaza?

   • Vidal: Yes, he came to the Plaza to read it. Mailer: My heart sank! [ Vidal laughs quietly] He'd done a brilliant piece about the future of China and Japan. How they were going to get together and how America and Russia were going to get together. Vidal: All of which has taken place.

   Mailer and Vidal: The Big Schmooze - Esquire

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   How much does Vidal's Hollywood mansion cost?

   • The $4-million mansion is perched in the Hollywood Hills, its rooms lined with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in a rococo interior that looks frozen in the 1970s, when Vidal bought it for less than $150,000. With the requisite Hollywood pool, the Mediterranean exterior is shrouded by trees.

   Gore Vidal's Final Feud - Washingtonian

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   What happened between Vidal & Mailer?

   • [ Vidal laughs] Mailer: I wouldn't have had the idea if you hadn't given it to me. For years, they jabbed and slugged and said mean things. In the winter of 1990, at the Plaza Hotel, on a blustering afternoon, their epic feud ended in a clinch — not to say an embrace.

   Mailer and Vidal: The Big Schmooze - Esquire

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   Did Vidal have the inner excitement of breaking through?

   • Mailer: On the other hand, he wouldn't have had the true inner excitement of breaking through. Of being the first. I mean, after all, he opened a huge theatrical territory. Vidal: Which had nothing to do with homosexuality. Mailer: Well, it did. Vidal: Only part of it.

   Mailer and Vidal: The Big Schmooze - Esquire

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   What happened to Gore Vidal?

   • In life, the Washington writer and critic was known for the epic fights he picked with other public intellectuals. With his death, he started a new one—a nasty battle among his own family over his $30-million estate. Photograph by Franco Origlia/Getty Images. Gore Vidal took fiendish delight in his feuds.

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8. commonreader.wustl.edu › c › revolution-got-televisedThe Revolution That Got Televised - Common Reader

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   Dec 5, 2016 · Buckley dropped his suit against Vidal, feeling that Vidal being forced to pay $75,000 in legal fees to defend himself in the suit. Buckley explained the reason for his lawsuit: The philosophy behind the libel action is to make some minor historical contribution to the sanctity of the language.