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National Book Award winner Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when...

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Gore Vidal’s presidential prediction

By Gore Vidal

May 23, 2008
Author Gore Vidal tells Sir David Frost why he believes Hillary Clinton has lost the battle to become the Democratic presidential candidate and why, if Barack Obama is elected president, it will be a sign of progress for the U.S.

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

Gore Vidal’s take on television

By Gore Vidal

Part 1
Author Gore Vidal, on the Real News Network, discusses the state of television news and democracy: “There are so many questions that television refuses to take up—much less answer.”

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

Gore Vidal interviewed on Al Jazeera

By Gore Vidal

Nov. 2, 2008
Al Jazeera interviewer Riz Khan talks to one of America’s most outspoken writers, Gore Vidal, who has described the U.S. as imperialist and divided. Vidal explains his hopes for a Barack Obama presidency.

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

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Gore Vidal vs. David Dimbleby on election night

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Distinguished British broadcaster David Dimbleby comes up against an equally distinguished Gore Vidal on election night, 2008.

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

Gore Vidal’s view of McCain

By Gore Vidal

Parts 1 and 2
Jon Snow interviews the writer Gore Vidal on the American presidential campaign. Vidal dismisses John McCain as “Mr. Magoo” and says he should have been court-martialed.

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

Gore Vidal on terror and dandruff

By Gore Vidal

“The war against terror is like the war against dandruff. I mean it’s a metaphor. It doesn’t mean anything.”
—Gore Vidal.

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

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Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
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National Book Award winner Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.


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