"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
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Gore Vidal (born Eugene Luther Vidal) October 3, 1925 Born in West Point, New York Novelist, essayist, polemicist, screenwriter and genius.
Quote "We are assured daily by advertisers and/or politicians that we are the richest, most envied people on Earth and, apparently, that is why so many awful, ill-groomed people want to blow us up."
Off-Site Resource Comprehensive Website Dedicated To Gore Vidal
Bibliography (Please use the comment function to politely send corrections and additions.) Novels Williwaw - 1946 In a Yellow Wood - 1947 The City and the Pillar - 1948 The Season of Comfort - 1949 A Search for the King - 1950 Dark Green, Bright Red - 1950 The Judgment of Paris - 1953 Messiah - 1955 Julian - 1964 Washington, D. C. - 1967 Myra Breckinridge - 1968 Two Sisters - 1970 Burr - 1973 Myron - 1975 1876 - 1976 Kalki - 1978 Creation - 1981 Duluth - 1983 Lincoln - 1984 Empire - 1987 Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920's - 1989 Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal - 1992 The Smithsonian Institution - 1998 The Golden Age - 2000
Novels Written Under Pseudonyms A Star's Progress - 1950 (also published as Cry Shame) written as Katherine Everard Thieves Fall Out - 1953 by Cameron Kay Death Before Bedtime - 1953 by Edgar Box Death in the Fifth Position - 1954 by Edgar Box Death Likes It Hot - 1954 by Edgar Box
Nonfiction Including Essay Collections and Memoirs Rocking the Boat - 1963 Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship - 1969 Sex, Death and Money - 1969 Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952-1972 - 1973 Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973 - 1976 - 1977 The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 - 1982 At Home: Essays 1982-1988 - 1988 Screening History - 1992 Decline and Fall of the American Empire - 1992 United States: Essays 1952 - 1992 - 1993 Palimpsest: A Memoir - 1995 The American Presidency - 1998 Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings - 1999 The Last Empire: Essays 1992 - 2000 - 2001 Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Or How We Came to be so Hated - 2002 Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta - 2002 Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson - 2003 Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia - 2004 Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir - 2006
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