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  • In Bed with Gore Vidal In Bed with Gore Vidal
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    In Bed with Gore Vidal

    Tim Teeman

    "Gore Vidal was a good friend for over sixty years. If you want to know who Gore really was, read In Bed with Gore Vidal, which uncovers, and evokes, his complicated private life and how that...
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  • Gore Vidal and Antiquity Gore Vidal and Antiquity
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    Gore Vidal and Antiquity

    Quentin J. Broughall

    This book examines Gore Vidal's lifelong engagement with the ancient world. Incorporating material from his novels, essays, screenplays and plays, it argues that his interaction with antiquity was...
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  • Gore Vidal and Antiquity
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    Gore Vidal and Antiquity

    Quentin Broughall

    This book examines Gore Vidal’s lifelong engagement with the ancient world. Incorporating material from his novels, essays, screenplays and plays, it argues that his interaction with antiquity was...
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  • Buckley vs. Vidal Buckley vs. Vidal
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    Buckley vs. Vidal

    William F. Buckley

    Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part...
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  • Burr
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    Burr

    Gore Vidal

    Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton.In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three...
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  • The City And The Pillar
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    The City And The Pillar

    Gore Vidal

    A literary cause celebre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experienceJim Willard, former high-school athlete and...
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    Palimpsest: A Memoir

    Gore Vidal

    Vidal on Vidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subjectPalimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist,...
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  • Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace:
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    Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace:

    Following the attacks of 11 September 2001, George W. Bush said of the perpetrators: ''They are evil, we are good''. Bush responded to the disaster with severe restrictions on civil liberties,...
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  • Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander
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    Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander

    Paul Cartledge

    Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiration for the musical Cabaret but is also the author of plays,...
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  • Invisible Cities
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    Invisible Cities

    'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday TimesIn Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler...
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  • The Golden Age
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    The Golden Age

    Gore Vidal

    THE GOLDEN AGE is the final, eponymous novel that brings to an end what Gabriel Garc a M rquez has called 'Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels or novelised histories', NARRATIVES OF...
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  • 1876
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    1876

    Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical...
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  • Best-Kept Boy In The World Best-Kept Boy In The World
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    Best-Kept Boy In The World

    Arthur Vanderbilt

    "Denny, long before he surfaced in my cove, was a legend well-known to me, a myth entitled: Best-Kept Boy in the World."-Truman CapoteDenham (Denny) Fouts, the twentieth century's most famous male...
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  • How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV
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    How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV

    Marcie Frank

    Novelist, television personality, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vidal is one of the most innovative, influential, and enduring American intellectuals of the past fifty...
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  • Palimpsest: A Memoir
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    Palimpsest: A Memoir

    Gore Vidal

    This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind...
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  • Goodbye to Berlin
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    Goodbye to Berlin

    Isherwood, Christopher

    'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal As Cabaret returns to the West End, revisit the KitKat Club in the book that introduced Sally Bowles to the world. Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin...
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    Benefit of Doubt

    Frederic Raphael

    'To regard the human condition without excessive hope, but not to dispair of it, remains the sceptic's warily optimistic recipe. As someone once said, 'The man who has all the answers has not heard...
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  • West of the West
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    West of the West

    Leonard Michaels

    Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, West of the West offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically...
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  • New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut
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    New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut

    David Simmons

    Kurt Vonnegut's darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation. From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960's novels such as Cat's Cradle (1963) and...
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  • Myra Breckinridge And Myron
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    Myra Breckinridge And Myron

    Gore Vidal

    Everyone is talking about Myra Breckinridge - and everything you have heard about her is true'I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess.'So begins the irresistible testimony of the...
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  • Into The Buzzsaw
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    Into The Buzzsaw

    Borjesson, Kristina

    WINNER: National Press Clubs Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism Leading journalists from Fox News, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, newspapers, and other outlets-including Dan Rather, Ashleigh Banfield, Robert...
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  • The City And The Pillar
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    The City And The Pillar

    Gore Vidal

    Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door, is haunted by the memory of a romantic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the...
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  • The Charioteer
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    The Charioteer

    Mary Renault

    Injured at Dunkirk, Laurie Odell, a young corporal, is recovering at a rural veterans' hospital. There he meets Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. The men find solace in each...
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  • Perceiving Courage Perceiving Courage
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    Perceiving Courage

    Susan Kleinberg

    Artist Susan Kleinberg's piece, "Perceiving Courage" premiered at the 2001 Venice Biennale, then showed at PS1/MoMA, NYC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires; among many others around the world. ...
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  • Nat Tate
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    Nat Tate

    The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world, with a new introduction by William BoydOn January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a...
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    Cocktail Hour

    Jess Brallier

    A collection of quotes on drinking from more than one hundred of the greatest thinkers (or drinkers) in history, sure to entertain, inspire, or enlighten.US President Herbert Hoover called the...
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  • Best of Enemies
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    Best of Enemies

    Graham, James

    Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television." 1968 a...
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  • Pirates in Oz (Wonderful Oz Books, No 25)
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    Pirates in Oz (Wonderful Oz Books, No 25)

    Return to L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz with this illustrated children's book series.The old Gnome King attempts to capture the Emerald City and regain his magic belt, much to the horror of...
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  • Ojo in Oz (Wonderful Oz Books, No 27)
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    Ojo in Oz (Wonderful Oz Books, No 27)

    Return to L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz with this illustrated children's book series.When Ojo, everyone's favorite Munchkin boy, is kidnapped-first by gypsies and then by a roving robber...
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  • Speedy in Oz (Wonderful Oz Books, No 28)
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    Speedy in Oz (Wonderful Oz Books, No 28)

    Return to L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz with this illustrated children's book series.Legendary Umbrella Island flies magically through the air . . . until it careens smack into the forehead...
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  • Truman Capote Truman Capote
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    Truman Capote

    M. Thomas Inge

    Truman Capote once said, ¿The thing I like to do most in the whole world is talk ...,¿ and talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book. The topics are often gossip about...
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  • Myra Breckinridge And Myron
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    Myra Breckinridge And Myron

    Gore Vidal

    It is a risky (and risque) business becoming 'Woman Triumphant' - exercising total power over men like Rusty Godowski. Rusty just wants to be a Hollywood star like everyone else at Buck Loner's...
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  • Lincoln
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    Lincoln

    Gore Vidal

    In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study...
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  • Grampa in Oz
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    Grampa in Oz

    Return to L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz with this illustrated children's book series.When King Fumbo of Ragbad loses his head in a storm, Prince Tatters, accompanied by the wise and wonderful...
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  • Caligula: The Official Story of the Film
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    Caligula: The Official Story of the Film

    Aaron Shaps

    Conceived by screenwriter Gore Vidal as a depiction of absolute power corrupting absolutely, Caligula depicts the ascent to emperor and subsequent reign of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus,...
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  • Categorically Famous
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    Categorically Famous

    Guy Davidson

    The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers-James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore...
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  • Los Alamos Los Alamos
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    Los Alamos

    John D. Wirth

    Twenty-five years before the Manhattan Project created the town of Los Alamos, the Pajarito Plateau was home to an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. The Los Alamos Ranch School...
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  • India in Mind
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    India in Mind

    The latest in our appealing travel series- an anthology of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that captures the world's second most populous nation in all its beguiling complexity. A VINTAGE DEPARTURES...
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  • The Girls : A Story of Village Life
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    The Girls : A Story of Village Life

    John Bowen

    A wry, macape tale of simple country living, putal murder, and a reasonably happy couple, from our 'most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist' (Gore Vidal).In their lovely old Cotswolds village,...
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