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	American Masters . Gore Vidal \| PBS
		Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century.
		Vidal's lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire.
		Vidal was born in 1925 with high political and social connections.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/vidal_g.html (1870 words)

	Gore Vidal
		Vidal was alive and kicking in 1939, and thanks to his role as Senator Thomas Pryor Gore's grandson (and occasional seeing-eye dog), he met or at least observed many of The Golden Age's dramatis personae.
		Vidal learned about political life from him and when he was a teenager he adopted the first name of Gore.
		Nina Vidal married Hugh Auchincloss, and hence Gore Vidal acquired a stepfather in common with Jacqueline Kennedy.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/v/vidal_gore.htm (1352 words)

	Gore Vidal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vidal's third novel in the '60s was as daring as it was unexpected and outlandish; the satirical transsexual comedy Myra Breckinridge (1968), an inventive, often hilarious variation on familiar Vidalian themes of sex, gender, and popular culture.
		Not to be outdone, Vidal responded in the September 1969 issue of Esquire, variously characterizing W.F. Buckley as "anti-fl", "anti-semitic", and a "warmonger" ([4]).
		The inferences made by Vidal from Buckley's [earlier editorial] statements cannot be said to be completely unreasonable," however, Vidal also strongly implied that, in 1944, Buckley and unnamed siblings had vandalized a Protestant church in their Sharon, Connecticut, hometown after the pastor's wife had sold a house to a Jewish family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gore_Vidal (3911 words)

	Gore Vidal (Bold Type Magazine)
		No theme is nearer to Gore Vidal's heart than Power, especially as it is acquired and used by politicians and other figures in public life.
		T.P. Gore was blind and an insatiable reader, a combination of attributes that made necessary the assistance of the young Gore Vidal, whose passion for history was either born or further developed in this new role as his grandfather's designated reader.
		Whether or not Vidal attended this particular scene as a young man, I'm not sure (His grandfather, despite being a fellow-Democrat of Roosevelt's, was at odds with many of FDR's policies).
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/1000/vidal (445 words)

	Salon.com News \| Gore Vidal joins the black-helicopter crowd
		At its most florid, which is frequently, Gore Vidal's prose style resembles the well-oiled musings of a professional wit on the banquet circuit, who regales his moist, heavily breathing listeners with elegant postprandial tales just outré enough to stir their digestive juices.
		Vidal's increasingly untethered rage at the federal government, combined with his sympathy for a man he regards as misunderstood, leads him to more or less explicitly argue that McVeigh's murder of 168 people was more defensible than the government raid at Waco that killed more than 80 Branch Davidians.
		Vidal is too cagey to come right out and say that McVeigh's action was justified, but the very fact that he leaves his attitude on this question vague says all that needs to be said.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/2001/08/09/vidal (1063 words)

	Gore Vidal
		Vidal, 70, was taken to the San Giovanni hospital shortly after 6 a.m.
		Gore shocked Americans when he burst onto the literary scene in 1948 with a noval called "The City and the Pillar," which dealt frankly with homosexuality.
		Vidal has made two failed bids for public office and in recent years has published a series of best-selling historical novels that analyze where he thinks America fell from grace.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/vidal.htm (598 words)

	Gore Vidal Delivers Chilling Predictions of Despotism
		He is distantly related to former Vice President Al Gore, whose father was a U.S. senator, and Gore Vidal himself was an unsuccessful liberal candidate for Congress in 1960 in New York and the U.S. Senate in California in 1982.
		Gore (Eugene Luther) Vidal, who lives in Italy but was contacted by NCR when he was recently in the United States, was born in 1925 at West Point, where his father was an instructor.
		Vidal continues, "We are now faced with a Japanese seventh-century-style arrangement: a powerless Mikado ruled by a shogun vice president and his Pentagon warrior counselors.
	www.rense.com /general39/despot.htm (1452 words)

	Gore Vidal
		Gore Vidal grew accustomed at an early age to a life among political and social notables.
		Vidal agreed to rework the script on condition that MGM let him out of the last two years of his long-term contract.
		Vidal's family have provided him with a wealth of material, starting from his maternal grandfather, the former senator T.P. Gore, and his relation to Jackie Kennedy through one of his mother's marriages.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /vidal.htm (1801 words)

	Amazon.com: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Books: Gore Vidal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Vidal's Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace collects a handful of his recent essays ranging on topics from the presidential election of 2000, to homegrown terrorism a la Timothy McVeigh, to the moralizing conservatism of mainstream America, to an open letter to the FBI on whether McVeigh was acting alone.
		Vidal argues that the waging of war by the "Pentagon junta" is but another example of the U.S.'s misguided tendency to "wage war to perpetuate peace"--a misbegotten policy that has earned the violent dislike of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and Timothy McVeigh as well as the diplomatic disdain of much of the world.
		Gore Vidal is not my favorite writer, political or otherwise, because his tendencies to name drop and to remind the reader of his patrician heritage grate on my nerves.
	www.amazon.com /Perpetual-War-Peace-Gore-Vidal/dp/156025405X (3763 words)

	Truthdig - Reports - Gore Vidal: America and Empire
		Gore Vidal has many valid things to say about American foreign policy, but the notion that FDR rearmed America to end the Depression is nonsense.
		Gore Vidal remains one of the last surviving voices of sanity in these increasingly mad and maddening times.
		Vidal elsewhere quotes Tiberius’s reproach to the Roman senate: “How eager you are to become slaves.” In light of the appalling passivity of much of the American electorate, may I add this line from Rousseau?: “Someday the slaves will rush to put on their chains.” And so they have.
	www.truthdig.com /report/item/20060414_gore_vidal_america_and_empire (3274 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gore Vidal: We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
		Gore Vidal: You can't tell what the junta has in mind, because this is the most secretive and probably illegal administration we've ever had.
		Gore Vidal: We only have one political party in the U.S., and that is the property party, which essentially is corporate America, which has two right wings, one called Republican and one called Democrat.
	cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20030204001/tscript.htm (1575 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gore Vidal (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Vidal is an acerbic observer of the contemporary American scene and an acute commentator on the nation's history.
		Vidal's historical fiction includes an interlocking septet of American novels : consisting of Washington, D.C. Burr (1973), 1876 (1976), Lincoln (1984), Empire (1987), Hollywood (1990), and The Golden Age (2000) : as well as Julian (1964), Creation (1982), Live from Golgotha (1992), and The Smithsonian Institution (1998).
		Vidal's sharply argued and often controversial essays have been collected in several volumes, including Reflections on a Sinking Ship (1969), The Second American Revolution (1982), Armageddon (1987), Screening History (1992), United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993), and The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 (2001).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Vidal-Go.html (354 words)

	Gore Vidal St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Vidal has even run for public office and, though never elected, was one of those unsuccessful candidates--Barry Goldwater, Vidal's political opposite, was another--whose views have nonetheless had an influence upon the electorate.
		Vidal was responsible for the screenplay of his friend Tennessee Williams's play Suddenly, Last Summer and made some major, although uncredited, contributions to the script of Ben-Hur.
		Vidal, who once criticized the United States as "the land of the dull and the home of the literal," nevertheless always wanted to be its president.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201259 (692 words)

	Gore Vidal
		Nation contributing editor Gore Vidal is a prolific novelist, playwright and essayist, and one of the great stylists of contemporary American prose.
		Vidal made his debut as novelist with Williwaw at the age of 19, while still in the US Army.
		Vidal's family have provided him with a wealth of material, starting from his maternal grandfather, former senator Thomas Pryor Gore and his relation to Jackie Kennedy through one of his mother's marriages.
	www.thenation.com /directory/bios/gore_vidal (720 words)

	Isebrand, Gore Vidal pages, e-pamphlets, New York politics, IseFire
		Gore Vidal confidently delivers some of the most compelling, insightful, and witty observations on American history and politics of any American writer.
		He is the grandson of Oklahoma's first Senator (T. Gore), son of a West Pointer who served in FDR's administration, stepbrother of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and friend to President John F. Kennedy, as well as to many writers, such as Tennessee Williams, and actors, such as Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
		Vidal served in WWII as a Warrant Officer onboard a vessel in the Aleutians.
	www.isebrand.com /Gore_Vidal_Pages.htm (453 words)

	Democracy Now Transcript Archives
		The Gores are known for their belligerence and he is not known for self-defense let us say.
		GORE VIDAL: I would impeach him and in a well-run country the Senate should make a move toward the trial of Justice Scalia.
		GORE VIDAL: Well he was shocked by it, he also got the Bronze Star, he was a great marksman, and he did his share of shooting soldiers, but he was appalled at the civilians, the children.
	www.democracynow.org /transcripts/gorevidal.shtml (3371 words)

	Gore Vidal Interview \| The Progressive
		Gore Vidal is a gold mine of quips and zingers.
		Vidal moved gingerly and was using a cane.
		Vidal: The tactic would be to go after smaller offices, state by state, school board, sheriff, state legislatures.
	progressive.org /mag_intv0806 (1632 words)

	Uncensored Gore Vidal
		Now Vidal is at it again, giving the Weekly another dose of his dissent, and, with the constant trickle of casualties mounting in Iraq, his comments are no less explosive than they were last year.
		Vidal undoubtedly had current pols like Bush and Ashcroft in mind when he wrote his latest book, his third in two years.
		MARC COOPER: But Gore, you have lived through a number of inglorious administrations in your lifetime, from Truman's founding of the national-security state, to LBJ's debacle in Vietnam, to Nixon and Watergate, and yet here you are to tell the tale.
	www.lermanet.com /communion/gorevidal.htm (2334 words)

	Gore Vidal
		My guest this hour is Gore Vidal, author of over 22 books, movie star, movie writer, former opponent of mine in the 1982 campaign -- he lost to me, I lost to Pete Wilson, so we are linked in that political era of the past, which is I think long gone.
		Vidal to arrange the interview with him that you and I had discussed, the segment was put on hold." Okay, now here it is, how the country is run.
		I'm talking to Gore Vidal, author of over 22 books, a candidate for both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate here in California in 1982, as well as a person who has had contact with many of the personalities and celebrities of the last 30 or 40 years.
	www.wtp.org /archive/transcripts/gore_vidal.html (7583 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Vidal, Gore
		The multifaceted [Eugene] Gore Vidal [Jr.] is a novelist, playwright, essayist, mystery writer (under the pseudonym Edgar Box), screenwriter, social critic, literary critic, congressional candidate, political activist, and actor.
		Although Vidal argues here and in many places in his nonfiction that there is no homosexual identity and everyone is bisexual, the plot of the book proves the contrary.
		In his plays and novels with modern settings, Vidal's ear for contemporary idiom is so perfect and his understanding of current fads and obsessions so sure that he is always readable and often an incisive critic of modern life as well.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/vidal_g.html (730 words)

	Christopher Lydon Interviews... : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Vidal is a grimly erudite old comic who still fills the house, and whose repartee is not all repertoire.
		Gore Vidal can't be taken straight, but it's hard as well to shake his scathing contempt.
		There's nothing the slightest bit encouraging here except Gore Vidal himself and the indomitable fierceness of his campaign to reprove us, improve us and amuse us, all at the same time.
	blogs.law.harvard.edu /lydon/2003/12/23 (454 words)

	The Real News interview with Gore Vidal \| Independent World Television
		Author Gore Vidal talks with The Real News about television news and the state of democracy: "There are so many questions that television refuses to take up -- much less answer." Watch now here.
		Vidal predicted George W. Bush would undoubtedly become the most unpopular president in the history of the United States of America, and now Bush is well on his way - under 40% approval and sinking!
		Vidal's fiction is more historically accurate than the so-called history in the so-called history books.
	www.iwtnews.com /Vidal_interview (908 words)

	Times Cries Eke! Buries Al Gore
		Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a full statewide recount of all the rejected ballots....
		Surely the fact that Gore's name was listed first suggests that he was the voter's choice, unless, maddened by a surfeit of broccoli, his name was so placed as a tease.
		Al Gore is trying to save the world by stirring a nation in denial over global warming to meaningful action.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20011217/vidal (919 words)

	Gore Vidal
		Tribute to Gore Vidal on his 80th Birthday (an article I wrote which was published worldwide on Oct. 3, 2005).
		Vidal wrote it, and the camera follows him as he guides the viewer through Venice, and through his own exploration into the 'Vidal' name of Venice's rich past.
		Gore Vidal's Jan. 31, 2006 State of the Union: "Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us, " delivered on Democracy Now.
	www.christinesmith.us /id33.html (2241 words)

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