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  <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Eugene Luther Gore Vidal is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays, and the scion of a prominent political family. He is an outspoken critic of the American political Establishment, and a noted wit and social critic who wrote the ground-breaking &lt;i&gt;The City and the Pillar&lt;/i&gt; (1948) that outraged mainstream critics as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality.]]></about>      <hometown>West Point, New York</hometown>  <born_at>10/23/1925</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Lincoln: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Burr: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.02</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>837</ratings_count>
  <published>1973</published>  
  
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        <book id="8719">
  <title><![CDATA[Julian: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>464</ratings_count>
  <published>1964</published>  
  
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        <book id="86036">
  <title><![CDATA[Myra Breckinridge]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.46</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>414</ratings_count>
  <published>1968</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[1876: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>375</ratings_count>
  <published>1976</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Creation: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.11</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>334</ratings_count>
  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The City and the Pillar: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.77</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>323</ratings_count>
  <published>1948</published>  
  
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        <book id="8715">
  <title><![CDATA[Palimpsest: A Memoir]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>262</ratings_count>
  <published>1995</published>  
  
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        <book id="8717">
  <title><![CDATA[Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.84</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>262</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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        <book id="88874">
  <title><![CDATA[Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gore Vidal]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.54</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>270</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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