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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 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

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“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

On Bush and Blair

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Gore Vidal’s candid views of Bush and Blair

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

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Dear President Bush

By Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal exhorts George W. Bush during the waning days of his presidency.

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

Vidal, the Kennedys and the NYT

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Gore Vidal discusses the Kennedys and his 1960s battle with The New York Times on a “Democracy Now!” radio broadcast.

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

This Is America

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Dennis Wholey has a personal conversation with writer Gore Vidal, author of the new memoir “Point to Point Navigation”, about his life on and off the page.

Posted on Jul 2, 2010

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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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