Gore Vidal: 40 books

The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War. The historical novel is once again in vogue, and Gore Vidal...

The essays collected here all appeared in The Nation magazine between 1958 and 2005. The early literary ones reflected Vidal’s status as a rising young novelist of the postwar generation, and as he expanded confidently into nonfiction, his essays range widely over politics, religion, society, manners...

Narratives of Empire è una vera e propria controstoria dell’America, dagli albori della repubblica statunitense fino al secondo dopoguerra, composta da sette romanzi: Burr, Lincoln, Il candidato, Impero, Hollywood, Washington D.C., L’età dell’oro. Suscitando allo stesso tempo feroci polemiche...

ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, EGYPT IS A TINDERBOX. WILL ONE AMERICAN LIGHT THE SPARK THAT SETS IT ABLAZE?   Gore Vidal was one of America’s greatest and most controversial writers.  The author of twenty-three novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over...

È il 1876, l’anno in cui cade il centenario della fondazione degli Stati Uniti. Charles Schuyler, pungente corsivista del «New York Herald», dopo quasi mezzo secolo torna dall’Europa con la figlia Emma. Ad accoglierli, l’aria salmastra e i fumi di una città tutta nuova: ormai straniero nella...

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—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...

Interviews with the legendarily caustic commentator and National Book Award winner, on topics from the American empire to the national security state. If there’s a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there’s a hole in the road and if you don’t fill it in you’ll break...

Dopo L’età dell’oro e Emma, 1876 prosegue il ciclo Narratives of Empire: sette romanzi che, tra feroci polemiche e grandi consensi, hanno accompagnato Gore Vidal per oltre trent’anni. Una vera e propria controstoria dell’America, dalla costituzione degli Stati Uniti d’America fino al secondo...

The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating...

Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States. It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry...

Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire*,* affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged...

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1964, Giuliano è uno dei romanzi di maggiore successo di Gore Vidal. La fortuna ininterrotta che i lettori gli hanno tributato dalla sua uscita e gli apprezzamenti favorevoli della critica letteraria lo fanno annoverare tra le opere di narrativa più importanti della...

Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal author Gore Vidal exploded onto the political scene during the presidential conventions of 1968 when they debated 11 times on ABC News as a part of the network's convention coverage. Their debates were fiery and combative and they infamously blew up...

Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.In Inventing a Nation, Vidal...