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29 mag 2024 · This collection (the only single volume that includes Vidal's fiction and his essays) contains two complete works - MYRA BRECKINRIDGE, his most famous novel, and THE BEST MAN, a play about the American presidency.
30 mag 2024 · He has always been on record as saying he thought JFK was one of the most disastrous presidents American has ever had. It was an opinion that could have rendered him a voice from the edge. But Vidal had always been quite open about his bisexuality, (in 1950 he settled down with Howard Austen, who died in 2003 at their home in Amalfi ...
4 giorni fa · The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876. Incumbent Republican president Ulysses S. Grant declined to run for a third term, so the party chose Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio, as its nominee.
9 giu 2024 · Creation by Gore Vidal. A book review by David Maclaine. Jun 09, 2024. Creation was inspired by Gore Vidal’s realization that it was possible in theory for a single man to have met Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius and Socrates.
1 giorno fa · In Gore Vidal's 1973 novel Burr, a major plot theme is an attempt to prevent Van Buren's election as president by proving he is the illegitimate son of Aaron Burr. Comic strips
11 giu 2024 · Few writers of recent memory have distinguished themselves in so many fields, and so consummately, as Gore Vidal. A prolific novelist, Vidal also wrote for film and theater, and became a classic essayist of his own time, delivering prescient analyses of American society, politics, and culture.
2 giorni fa · We asked you to share with us your favourite reads of the year so far ... I immediately followed this up with Gore Vidal’s Lincoln, which pairs very well ... US Presidential Election 2024 ...
