With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers
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Norman Burr: A Novel is a 1973 historical novel by Gore Vidal that challenges the traditional Founding Fathers iconography of United States history, by means of a narrative that includes a fictional memoir by Aaron Burr, in representing the people, politics, and events of the U
He began his literary career in 1946 with the publication of his novel Williwaw but did not achieve notoriety until he published his third book The City and The Pillar which cause a minor scandal for its depiction of homosexuality
It covers the years 1937 through His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines
Vidal and Norman Mailer first met at a mutual friend's Manhattan apartment in 1952
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Leslie Morris, Houghton Library's first Gore Vidal Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts, displays selected pieces from the collection
Rather than focus on the Civil War itself, the novel is centred on Lincoln's political and personal struggles
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Paperback - February 15, 2000
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Palimpsest is written from the vantage point of Vidal's library in his villa on the Italian coast
People know his essays, screenplays, and Broadway
With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers
Events are seen through the eyes of the Sanfords, Day, and the historical Jess Smith, a member of the The story begins in 1939 and features many of the characters and events that Gore Vidal and powerful newspaper publisher Blaise Sanford
C Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years
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Creation is an epic historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal published in 1981
Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated -- and misunderstood -- figures among the Founding Fathers
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-- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations
In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him
Less than a year later, Vidal published a second book: Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and The Cheney-Bush Junta
Paperback - May 1, 2003
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Vidal, you recently wrote in The New York Review of Books, "When it comes to matters of prose and of fiction at Since 1967, when he published Washington, D
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The official story, as set down in Vidal’s memoirs and essays, and in hundreds of reviews, profiles, and, finally, in his obituaries—he died in 2012—went like this: grandson of Thomas P In Washington DC, Vidal paints a picture of America where democracy
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Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United
Julian (novel) Julian is a 1964 novel by Gore Vidal, a work of historical fiction written
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Narratives of Empire that covers from 1771 - the early 1950s, but it's a great place to start especially if you've seen Hamilton
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With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly
Vidal lived in New York after the war, as did Capote, and they moved in the same social circle, over which Tennessee Hollywood is the fifth historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series
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Creation is an epic historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal published in 1981
In 1977, after visiting Vidal at his cliff-perched villa on the Amalfi Coast, Martin Amis observed that “he has little of the paranoia worryingly frequent among well-known writers
We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy Burr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers
Burr: A Novel
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Aldridge, in his influential 1951 book After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars, wrote a full chapter on Vidal, the first substantial critical look at his writing, covering Vidal's seven novels published up to that time, including the autobiographical The Season of Comfort (1948)
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