Gore Vidal
a biography
1st ed.
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Word Count
212,500 words, Guess
Page Count
850 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL32820M
- ISBN-100385477031
- OCLC Control Number41017333
- OCLC Control Numbergorevidalbiograp00kapl
- Library of Congress Control Number99014828
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- Goodreads883763
- LibraryThing226522
Classifications
- DDC818/.5409
- LCCPS3543.I26 Z73 1999
Description
"From his Washington childhood, a world of high political and social connections and domestic turmoil, to his Exeter education and U.S. Army experiences; from his Hollywood and television career to his literary life as a novelist, playwright, and essayist; from his friendships and feuds with Tennessee Williams, Anais Nin, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and William Buckley to his exploration of homosexuality and celebration of bisexuality; from his cool satirical analyses of "the rich, the famous and the powerful" to his projection of himself onto the national stage of television talk shows and political ambition, Gore Vidal has been both participant in and spectator at the centers of American power."--BOOK JACKET. "Fred Kaplan enjoyed complete access to Vidal's papers, letters, and private photographs, as well as television and newsreel footage, but was guaranteed a free hand by Vidal to write as he saw fit."--Jacket.
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