Book TV: Gore Vidal, 2009 National Book Awards
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For F's sake, don't leave us now, Sir.
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Good lord he looks awful! His health must have taken a real turn for the worse. I saw him on TV a few years ago and he looked much better.
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I LOVE U GORE
UR ONE KOOL MAN!
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I think there are few men left in the world whose own personal library should serve as the perfect education for every child born from this time on. If there is any actual historical figure I think Vidal can be compared to and serve as a duplicate for our own time, it would be Henry Adams, a writer who was intensely interested in uncovering the "engines' of history. More than any today, Vidal should be weighed down with medals and deafened by applause. He did not mention Thucydides haphazardly!
2 years ago 2
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I enjoyed THE GOLDEN AGE immensely. I did not realize it was his most recent. His novels present a view of history that is a vital counterpoint to the varnished "America-as-heroic-agent-in-th
e-world" perspective. Howard Zinn is a similar writer (Historian rather than novelist) whose work is being featured tomorrow (12/13) on the History Channel --"The People Speak". I'm looking forward to it. -
Yes mine too and yes he is. I can not wait for his book on the Mexican-American war and President Polk.
2 years ago 2
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Gore is one of my personal heroes. The man has a wit like no other.
Mayhemm007 2 years ago 6
Hope he's able to complete this historical novel on the Mexican War. Gore Vidal published his last novel THE GOLDEN AGE in 2000.
kevviking1 2 years ago 3