Vidal, Gore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2003

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Vidal, Gore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993

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Summary: This is an unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal's America, the political coup has already happened. The right have triumphed and the human values of the liberals have been consigned to history. But how did this happen and who organized it? In this film Gore Vidal's acerbic, opinionated and informed approach rips away at the facade of the new America. The film dramatizes Gore's political...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfrog Films 2014

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Vidal, Gore

Summary: The third volume of Gore Vidal's series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 explores the political scandals of the Grant administration and the intrigues of that year's presidential election. Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to America after his self-imposed exile, hoping to arrange a marriage for his daughter Emma, but...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1976

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Vidal, Gore

Contents: Democratic vistas -- Goat song : unanswered questions before, during, after 9/11 -- Meandering toward Armageddon -- Three lies to rule by -- Japanese intentions in the Second World War -- How we missed the Saturday dance -- The last empire -- In the lair of the octopus -- Mickey Mouse, historian -- With exteme prejudice -- The union of the state -- The last defender of the American republic? :...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books 2002

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Vidal, Gore

Summary: Celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, politics, and international society, where he has cut a broad swath, recounting...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006

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Vidal, Gore

Contents: Three Stratagems -- The Robin -- A Moment of Green Laural -- The Zenner Trophy -- Erlinda and Mr. Coffin -- Pages from an Abandoned Journal -- The Ladies in the Library -- Clouds and Eclipses.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2006

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Vidal, Gore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999

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Vidal, Gore

Summary: In Point to Point Navigation, novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. The title refers to a form of navigation he resorted to as a first mate in the Navy during World War II. He says, "As I was writing this account of my life and times since Palimpsest, I felt as if I...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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Vidal, Gore

Summary: Volumes have been written about Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Vidal's does. His consummate skill takes the reader into the minds and private rooms of these great men, illuminating their opinions of one another and their concerns about crafting a workable democracy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003

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Vidal, Gore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1998

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Vidal, Gore

Summary: From the Publisher: Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialists-is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008

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Vidal, Gore.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books 2000

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VIDAL, GORE

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1960

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Vidal, Gore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988

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Vidal, Gore

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990

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Vidal, Gore

Summary: Presents a series of articles and essays criticizing recent developments in American government and foreign policy, especially during the administration of George W. Bush.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2004

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Vidal, Gore

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Publisher / Publication Date: DOUBL 0000

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Vidal, Gore

Contents: Myron / Vidal, Gore, 1925-.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abacus 1993

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Summary: Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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Summary: Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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Summary: The forgotten: Nine-year-old Sam Paretta is dead, killed in a plane crash. Even though it's been fourteen months since the accident, his mother, Telly, still grieves over the loss. But suddenly, her husband swears they never had a child and her psychiatrist insists she's delusional. Worst of all, there is absolutely no evidence to prove Sam ever existed. Haunted by the memories of her son,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2007

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Summary: Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc Corp. 2004

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Summary: Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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