Armageddon?
Subtitle: Essays 1983—1987
By: by Gore Vidal.
Publisher: A. Deutsch
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780233981567
Copyright date: 1987
Description: This collection of essays examines the leaders and lunacies of contemporary America, from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan. Vidal also reminisces about his patrician childhood and writers past and present such as Tennessee Williams, Anthony Burgess, Henry James and William Dean Howells.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: Part I; label: 1
title: At Home in Washington D.C.
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: On Flying
pagenum: 8; label: 3
title: Frederic Prokosch: The European Connection
pagenum: 30; label: 4
title: Tennessee Williams: Someone to Laugh at the Squares with
pagenum: 48; label: 5
title: Richard Nixon: Not ‘The Best Man’ ’s Best Man
pagenum: 63; label: 6
title: Hollywood
pagenum: 69; label: 7
title: Ronnie and Nancy: A Life in Pictures
pagenum: 83; label: 8
title: Armageddon?
pagenum: 101; label: 9
title: The Day the American Empire Ran out of Gas
pagenum: 115; label: 10
title: A Cheerful Response
pagenum: 126; label: 11
title: Vidalgate by Andrew Kopkind
pagenum: 131; label: 12
title: Mongolia!
pagenum: 135; label: 13
title: At Home in a Roman Street
pagenum: 151; title: Part II; label: 14
title: The Bookchat of Henry James
pagenum: 157; label: 15
title: William Dean Howells
pagenum: 168; label: 16
title: The Golden Bowl of Henry James
pagenum: 194; label: 17
title: Logan Pearsall Smith Loves the Adverb
pagenum: 206; label: 18
title: Paul Bowles’s Stories
pagenum: 213; label: 19
title: Calvino’s Death
pagenum: 220; label: 20
title: Why I Am Eight Years Younger Than Anthony Burgess
pagenum: 234