INVENTING A NATION: WASHINGTON, ADAMS, JEFFERSON [SIGNED 1ST] Hardcover - 2003

New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0300101716) . 198 pages; Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal) was an American writer (novels, essays, screenplays, stage plays) and a public intellectual, who was known for his patrician manner, wit, and aphorisms. Vidal was born to a political family; his grandfather was Thomas Gore, U. S. Senator for Oklahoma (1907-21, 1931-37). As a member of the Democratic Party, Vidal twice ran for political office. As as political commentator, Vidal's subject was the United States, especially the imperialistic foreign policy, which reduced the U. S. To a decaying empire. His essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books and Esquire. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal was known for his continual quarrels with other public intellectuals and writers, such as William F. Buckley, Jr. , Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote. Of his fiction, "Myra Breckinridge" (1968) was a widely regarded novel of social mores; in the historical novel genre, "Julian" (1964) , "Burr" (1973) , and "Lincoln" (1984) are considered his best works. His third novel, "The City and the Pillar" (1948) , offended the sensibilities of conservative critics (literary and political) , because it featured unambiguous presentations of male homosexuality. Personally, Gore Vidal rejected the terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual" as inherently false labels, because he believed that men and women potentially are pansexual. Author-signed first printing of this essay on the founders of the United States. Gore Vidal's signature appears on the title page. The volume is bound in blue paper-covered boards and a blue cloth spine with stamped gilt lettering. The volume and dust jacket are in excellent condition. The jacket is preserved in mylar cover. Portrait of the first three American presidents; Signed by Author .