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Gore Vidal

Born

in West Point, New York, The United States

October 03, 1925

Died

July 31, 2012

Genre

Biography, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Influences

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Works of American writer Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, noted for his cynical humor and his numerous accounts of society in decline, include the play The Best Man (1960) and the novel Myra Breckinridge (1968) .

People know his essays, screenplays, and Broadway.
They also knew his patrician manner, transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. Vidal came from a distinguished political lineage; his grandfather was the senator Thomas Gore, and he later became a relation (through marriage) to Jacqueline Kennedy.

Vidal, a longtime political critic, ran twice for political office. He was a lifelong isolationist Democrat. The Nation, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, and Esquire published his essays.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 98,843 ratings · 7,952 reviews · 423 distinct works • Similar authors

	Burr 4.09 avg rating — 10,612 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln 4.25 avg rating — 9,820 ratings — published 1984 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City and the Pillar 3.83 avg rating — 10,290 ratings — published 1948 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Julian 4.23 avg rating — 8,130 ratings — published 1964 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creation by Gore Vidal, Anthony Burgess (Foreword) 4.22 avg rating — 5,050 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Myra Breckinridge 3.57 avg rating — 5,263 ratings — published 1968 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1876 3.86 avg rating — 3,354 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire 3.86 avg rating — 2,498 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palimpsest 4.01 avg rating — 2,035 ratings — published 1995 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Washington, D.C. 3.74 avg rating — 1,952 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Narratives of Empire (7 books)
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Quotes by Gore Vidal (?)

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

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“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

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“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
― Gore Vidal, Screening History

tags: america, american-ts, americans, educated-voters, elections, hope, political-education, politics, vote

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2015 3rd Quarter Long Read Poll, July-September

1605, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. 982 pages

12 votes, 28.6%

1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 731 pages

10 votes, 23.8%

1872, Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages

3 votes, 7.1%

1915, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 7.1%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

3 votes, 7.1%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

3 votes, 7.1%

1920, The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, 872 pages

2 votes, 4.8%

1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages

2 votes, 4.8%

1943, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, 720 pages

2 votes, 4.8%

1984, Lincoln by Gore Vidal, 672 pages

1 vote, 2.4%

1972, Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell, 816 pages

1 vote, 2.4%

42 total votes

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