Gore Vidal

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National Book Award winner Gore Vidal (Oct. 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012) wrote twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.

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On Bush and Blair

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Jul 3, 2010 Gore Vidal's candid views of Bush and Blair Dig deeper

Dear President Bush

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Jul 3, 2010 Gore Vidal exhorts George W. Bush during the waning days of his presidency. Dig deeper

Vidal, the Kennedys and the NYT

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Jul 3, 2010 Gore Vidal discusses the Kennedys and his 1960s battle with The New York Times on a "Democracy Now!" radio broadcast. Dig deeper

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Jul 3, 2010 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. Dig deeper

American Empire

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Jul 3, 2010 Gore Vidal laments that the pillars of the Constitution are gone. Dig deeper

Americans! Your lack of education!

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Jul 3, 2010 Oct. 22, 2009 Gore Vidal on "The Joy Behar Show" Dig deeper

Gore Vidal on liberty

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Jul 3, 2010 The author opines that we've always been an oligarchy of the well-to-do and are becoming even more so now, and that the Magna Carta, which guaranteed due process of law, was the only good thing England left us. Dig deeper

Gore Vidal

On Bush and Blair

Dear President Bush

Vidal, the Kennedys and the NYT

This Is America

American Empire

Americans! Your lack of education!

Gore Vidal on liberty

Gore Vidal on the future

Gore Vidal on writing

A Gore Vidal vodcast

Gore Vidal on Christopher Hitchens

Gore Vidal on Aaron Burr