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Gore Vidal's America (Polity celebrities series)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.92
EAN: 9780745633633
ISBN: 0745633633
Label: Polity
Manufacturer: Polity
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 220
Publication Date: November 04, 2005
Publisher: Polity
Studio: Polity
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Editorial Review:
Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty years. He is both a serious writer and a television and movie celebrity, whose increasingly acerbic picture of the United States guarantees he is both revered and reviled.
Gore Vidal's America examines the ways in which Vidal's writings on history, politics, sex and religion throw into focus our understandings of the United States, but also recognizes his versatility and inventiveness as a creative writer, some of whose novels - Julian; Myra Breckinridge; Lincoln; Duluth - are among the important literary works of their time.
Ranging from Vidal's early defence of homosexuality in The City and the Pillar (1948) to his most recent writings on the war in Iraq, this book provides a unique perspective on the evolution of post-World War II American society, politics and literature. As Altman writes: "Difficult not to see in the results of the 2004 elections, where the Republican right gained in both the White House and the Senate, proof of Vidal's worse fears, namely that the impact of imperial adventure, big money and religious moralism would increasingly imperil the American Republic."
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - les faiblesses de M. Vidal
this book in revealing the weaknesses of Vudal also points to the strengths, and Altman becomes himself an important author, like Edmund White writing on Genet. To be read
Rating:  - great intro to contemporary US!!!
I don't much like Gore Vidal, but when I ppicked up this book Altman converted me: he makes Vidal seem far more interesting, important and lively than the old cumudgeon we see on television. A wonderful introduction to the US of the twentieth cnetury!!!--and quite witty to read
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