Empire of self
Subtitle: a life of Gore Vidal
By: Jay Parini
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780385537568
Subjects: American Authors; Biography
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Rock Creek ramble; title: A silver-plated mug; title: Capitol steps; title: A wider world; title: Truman and Gore at the Plaza; title: Not a lovely war; title: Two roads diverging; title: Storm at sea; title: Hearts of darkness; title: Edgewater recalled; title: Portrait of the artist as Balletomane; title: Pillars of salt; title: Stateside; title: More dolce vita; title: Finding Dutchess County; title: Loving Howard; title: Beverly Hills blues; title: Detecting life; title: The Spanish main; title: Media as messages; title: Silvery screens; title: More visits to small planets; title: Outlaws; title: Ben-Hur; title: A place at the round table; title: At the Water's edge - Hyannis; title: "You'll get more with Gore"; title: Slouching towards Camelot; title: Essaying the world; title: Roman spring; title: Julian rising; title: Moravia and Gore on the Isola Tiberna; title: Romanitas; title: Capitol steps revisited; title: The holy family; title: Myra; title: Busy weekends; title: The Vidal-Buckley debates; title: Furious visions; title: Miss Sontag writes a novel; title: A bad year; title: Writing Richard Nixon; title: Italian hours; title: Patriotic Gore; title: The swirl; title: Myron unmanned; title: The man who wouldn't fall to earth; title: Half a century; title: 1876 and all that; title: Memories, dreams, self-reflections; title: Apocalypse not quite yet; title: Hollywood redux; title: Grace and hope; title: Gore and Isaiah Berlin in Oxford; title: Acting president; title: Running in place; title: Duluth : love it or loathe it; title: Honorary citizen; title: Land of Lincoln; title: Ah, Venice!; title: The lesson of the master; title: "It's a trade"; title: "One disaster after another"; title: Fear of flying; title: Imperium; title: Sailing the coast; title: Adding wings to the mansion; title: Lenny and gore; title: "Our country's biographer"; title: "The other side of the camera"; title: Attacking the sky-God; title: Thinking about sex; title: Retreats, advances; title: In the widening gyre; title: At the Harvard Faculty Club; title: Rethinking Washington; title: Dreams of wholeness; title: Elder statesman; title: Reviewing the life; title: The golden age; title: Still the best man; title: Songs in the Hollywood Hills; title: The pamphleteer; title: Finding founding fathers; title: A death before bedtime; title: Marching to the sea; title: The last memoir; title: Mopping-up operations; title: Snapshots of the end; title: Conclusion; title: Postscript.