An edition of Empire of self
(2015)
Empire of self
a life of Gore Vidal
First edition.
by Jay Parini
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"The life of Gore Vidal was an amazingly full one: full of colorful incident, famous people, and lasting achievements that calls out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into [a] ... story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context; introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him; and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death"--Amazon.com.
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Empire of self: a life of Gore Vidal
2015, Doubleday
in English
- First edition.
0385537565 9780385537568
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Table of Contents
Introduction. Rock Creek ramble
A silver-plated mug
Capitol steps
A wider world
Truman and Gore at the Plaza
Not a lovely war
Two roads diverging
Storm at sea
Hearts of darkness
Edgewater recalled
Portrait of the artist as Balletomane
Pillars of salt
Stateside
More dolce vita
Finding Dutchess County
Loving Howard
Beverly Hills blues
Detecting life
The Spanish main
Media as messages
Silvery screens
More visits to small planets
Outlaws
Ben-Hur
A place at the round table
At the Water's edge - Hyannis
"You'll get more with Gore"
Slouching towards Camelot
Essaying the world
Roman spring
Julian rising
Moravia and Gore on the Isola Tiberna
Romanitas
Capitol steps revisited
The holy family
Myra
Busy weekends
The Vidal-Buckley debates
Furious visions
Miss Sontag writes a novel
A bad year
Writing Richard Nixon
Italian hours
Patriotic Gore
The swirl
Myron unmanned
The man who wouldn't fall to earth
Half a century
1876 and all that
Memories, dreams, self-reflections
Apocalypse not quite yet
Hollywood redux
Grace and hope
Gore and Isaiah Berlin in Oxford
Acting president
Running in place
Duluth : love it or loathe it
Honorary citizen
Land of Lincoln
Ah, Venice!
The lesson of the master
"It's a trade"
"One disaster after another"
Fear of flying
Imperium
Sailing the coast
Adding wings to the mansion
Lenny and gore
"Our country's biographer"
"The other side of the camera"
Attacking the sky-God
Thinking about sex
Retreats, advances
In the widening gyre
At the Harvard Faculty Club
Rethinking Washington
Dreams of wholeness
Elder statesman
Reviewing the life
The golden age
Still the best man
Songs in the Hollywood Hills
The pamphleteer
Finding founding fathers
A death before bedtime
Marching to the sea
The last memoir
Mopping-up operations
Snapshots of the end
Conclusion
Postscript.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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