Gore Vidal's America Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Dennis Altman
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- Title Gore Vidal's America
- Author Dennis Altman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 220
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, U.K.
- Date 2005-10-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780745633633_pod
- ISBN 9780745633633 / 0745633633
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 0.63 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 1.60 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, United States - History - 1945-
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
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."
