United States: Essays 1952-1992 Contributor(s): Vidal, Gore (Author), Cummings, Jeff (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1543696155 ISBN-13: 9781543696158 Publisher: Brilliance Audio
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Political Science |
Physical Information: 2.25" H x 6.5" W x 5.5" L |
Features: Unabridged |
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Publisher Description: Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov, and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992). State of the union deals with politics and public life: sex, drugs, money, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Holy Family (his essay on the Kennedys), Nixon, and finally Monotheism and its Discontents, a scathing critique of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In state of being, we are given personal responses to people and events: recollections of his childhood, E. Nesbit, Tarzan, Tennessee Williams, and Anais Nin. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vidal, Gore: - Gore Vidal (1925-2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir. |
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