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...
A collection which brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his 50-year writing career. With mercurial intelligence and often outrageous forthrightness, Vidal explores his keystone subject: primarily the worlds of...
One of the master stylists of American literature, Gore Vidal now provides us with his uniquely irreverent take on America's founding fathers, bringing them to life at key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation.
How We Got To Be So Hated - Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire. Gore Vidal transcends the simplistic black-and-white sloganizing of politicians and the corporate-sponsored media, and makes a rational investigation into the causes behind the devastating...
Good Friday, 1939. T, a 16-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. It's closed but he manages to slip in and it would appear that, somehow, he is expected. Exploring a Native American exhibit, he is magically drawn into...
This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He describes his difficult family, talented friends and interesting enemies with a cast that includes Tennessee Williams, the Kennedys, Jack...
In 1804 Colonel Burr - then Vice-President - killed General Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years after the affair, Colonel Burr was arrested by President Thomas Jefferson and charged with treason for having attempted to break up the US. This is a...
In this book, Abraham Lincoln is observed by his loved ones, his rivals and his future assassins. Seen by his wife, Mary, by the Secretary of State, Seward, by David Herold at the centre of the assassination plot and by presidential secretary John Hay....
Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles...
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.