Gore Vidal: snapshots in history's glare
"This book is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life. In this collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from Vidal's vast personal archives, readers are escorted by one of America's wittiest insiders into the Kennedys...
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| Summary: | "This book is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his remarkable and famously well-lived life. In this collection of photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other selections from Vidal's vast personal archives, readers are escorted by one of America's wittiest insiders into the Kennedys' Camelot, as well as onto the set of Ben Hur, and into the private lives of Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, and Tennessee Williams, to name a few" -- inside cover. |
| Physical Description: | 255 S. überw. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780810950498 |
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| adam_text | I his book is Gore Vidal s visual
memoir of his remarkable and
this collection of photographs, letters,
manuscripts, and other selections from
Vidal s vast personal archives, readers
are escorted by one of America s wittiest
insiders into the Kennedys
Camelot, as
well as onto the set of Ben
Hur,
and into
the private lives of Eleanor Roosevelt,
Paul Newman, and Tennessee Williams,
to name just a few.
Born into public life, here
Vidal
looks back on his days as an Army officer
during WWII, his rise as a groundbreaking
and controversial novelist, his years in
Hollywood, his forays into the political
arena, and his notoriously public triumphs
and feuds. Written with Vidal s legendary
wit and literary elegance, this book reveals
Iv tne
person.
il
reflections of one
the last of
reat generation of
Ameri
writers, but also a captivating social history
of the twentieth century told by one of our
great raconteurs.
GORE
VIDAL
is the author of twenty-five
novels, well over two hundred essays,
eight plays, and not-even-he-knows how
many television and movie scripts. He
lives in California.
Jacket front: Arnold Newman/Getty Images.
Jacket back Collection Gore
Vidal
(bottom right);
©
Estate of Stanley Tretick/courtesy of the
Houghton Library, Harvard University (bottom left);
all others Collection Gore
Vidal
by permission
of the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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