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Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal / Jay Parini.
Van Pelt Library PS3543.I26 Z85 2015
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3543.I26 Z85 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parini, Jay, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.
- Vidal, Gore.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 464 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2015]
- Summary:
- "The life of Gore Vidal was an amazingly full one: full of colorful incident, famous people, and lasting achievements that calls out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into [a] ... story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context; introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him; and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death"--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Rock Creek ramble
- A silver-plated mug
- Capitol steps
- A wider world
- Truman and Gore at the Plaza
- Not a lovely war
- Two roads diverging
- Storm at sea
- Hearts of darkness
- Edgewater recalled
- Portrait of the artist as Balletomane
- Pillars of salt
- Stateside
- More dolce vita
- Finding Dutchess County
- Loving Howard
- Beverly Hills blues
- Detecting life
- The Spanish main
- Media as messages
- Silvery screens
- More visits to small planets
- Outlaws
- Ben-Hur
- A place at the round table
- At the Water's edge - Hyannis
- "You'll get more with Gore"
- Slouching towards Camelot
- Essaying the world
- Roman spring
- Julian rising
- Moravia and Gore on the Isola Tiberna
- Romanitas
- Capitol steps revisited
- The holy family
- Myra
- Busy weekends
- The Vidal-Buckley debates
- Furious visions
- Miss Sontag writes a novel
- A bad year
- Writing Richard Nixon
- Italian hours
- Patriotic Gore
- The swirl
- Myron unmanned
- The man who wouldn't fall to earth
- Half a century
- 1876 and all that
- Memories, dreams, self-reflections
- Apocalypse not quite yet
- Hollywood redux
- Grace and hope
- Gore and Isaiah Berlin in Oxford
- Acting president
- Running in place
- Duluth : love it or loathe it
- Honorary citizen
- Land of Lincoln
- Ah, Venice!
- The lesson of the master
- "It's a trade"
- "One disaster after another"
- Fear of flying
- Imperium
- Sailing the coast
- Adding wings to the mansion
- Lenny and gore
- "Our country's biographer"
- "The other side of the camera"
- Attacking the sky-God
- Thinking about sex
- Retreats, advances
- In the widening gyre
- At the Harvard Faculty Club
- Rethinking Washington
- Dreams of wholeness
- Elder statesman
- Reviewing the life
- The golden age
- Still the best man
- Songs in the Hollywood Hills
- The pamphleteer
- Finding founding fathers
- A death before bedtime
- Marching to the sea
- The last memoir
- Mopping-up operations
- Snapshots of the end
- Conclusion
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780385537568
- 0385537565
- OCLC:
- 900594425
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