num_pages: 288
description: In this sequel to PALIMPSEST, the celebrated novelist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his.
language: English
title: Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 To 2006
titlecomplete: Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 To 2006
characters: Charles Lindbergh, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Elia Kazan, Greta Garbo (The Prince of Beverly Hills), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Barry Goldwater, Al Gore, Osama Bin Laden, Abraham Lincoln, Samuel Beckett, Henry Ford, Federico Fellini, Fidel Castro, Truman Capote, Robert F. "Bobby"  Kennedy, William Shakespeare, Donald Rumsfeld, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Adolf Hitler, Joan Didion, George W. Bush, Jimmie Trimble, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Susan Sontag, John Paul II, Shelby Foote, Thomas Gore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Julian the Apostate (Roman emperor), Howard Austen, Christopher Isherwood, Amelia Earhart, Francis Ford Coppola, Leo Strauss, Orson Welles, Michel de Montaigne, Barbra Streisand, Gore Vidal, Bill Clinton, John Dewey, Mark Twain, Fred Kaplan, Tennessee Williams, Saul Bellow, Joseph Stalin, Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales, Tony Blair, Johnny Carson, Thomas Jefferson, Saddam Hussein, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rudolf Nureyev, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ralph Ellison, Paul Bowles, Charles III, Charles Dickens, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Allan Bloom
genres: Audiobook, American, History, Queer, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Gay, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 841
places: California, Iwo Jima, Upstate New York, Dutchess County, New York, Southern Tier, New York
publisher: Little Brown & Co