BOOKS by Gore Vidal

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1	Lincoln more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist In Gore Vidal's 1988 LINCOLN, the story of the Civil War president is told mostly from John Hay's point of view. The last in Vidal's tetralogy of US political novels (WASHINGTON DC, BURR, and 1876 are the others), LINCOLN provides a nuanced picture of the president universally considered great. Here, Lincoln is very much a calculating politician, ... see all copies from £1.25! new only from £8.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Creation more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Cyrus Spitama is a Zoroastrian and descendent of Zoroaster. He travels to speak with prophets and philosophers, argue theology and come up with a creation theory. Cyrus is gossipy, name-dropping and worldly--as he moves through life, he wittily focuses on its minutiae. In the Vidal tradition, this novel is rich in historical and geographic detail. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Palimpsest: A Memoir more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist PALIMPSEST is the autobiography of Gore Vidal, who always said he would never write one. He begins with his birth in 1925 at West Point, and continues through his life as a page to his grandfather, the populist senator Thomas P. Gore from Oklahoma. In between are Vidal's days at St. Albans school and in the army, and his adventures in the gay life ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist In essay-articles on Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as in new thoughts on 9/11, Vidal expresses his dissenting views on America and its role around the world. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.07! \| first editions
5	Dreaming War more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Subtitled BLOOD FOR OIL AND THE CHENEY-BUSH JUNTA, Gore Vidal's book explores the oil connections between George Bush's oil days in Texas and the family of Osama bin Laden. Specifically, he calls for an investigation into 9/11 that would include what Bush knew and when he knew it--and why and how he and his associates have profited from it. Long a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57!
6	Burr more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American history, debunks, in this historical novel of ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £10.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Gore Vidal's lifelong interest in the United States, and in particular the period of the Founding Fathers, is here on display in his uniquely tendentious take on the first three presidents. Through these portraits, Vidal recreates the historical contexts and the key debates and personalities that established what has been called the world's ... see all copies from £5.47! new only from £5.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	1876 more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Charles Schuyler, the young journalist from Gore Vidal's BURR, is here 30 years older, and returning to the US from Europe with his fortune obliterated by the panic of 1873. He must now actively pursue a journalistic career and also find a husband for his daughter, Emma, a widow. Mostly, he must help Tilden get elected president, because then ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Empire more books like this by Vidal add to wishlist The saga of the Sanfords is fleshed out by this prequel to HOLLYWOOD and WASHINGTON, DC. Caroline is set up to marry Del Hay, Secretary of State John Hay's son. Rather than confine herself to a stultified domestic life, Caroline chooses to publish a newspaper and must deal with William Randoph Hearst and his protege, her half-brother Blaise. Other ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	United States: Essays 1952-1992 more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist An omnibus collection of writings--critical, political, and personal--from one of the most venerable figures in American letters. Vidal tackles such subjects as the Kennedys, Tennessee Williams, Americans and sex, and the fiction of France. This volume won the National Book Award in 1993. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £12.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006 more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist In this brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. see all copies from £1.46! new only from £6.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Julian more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader. see all copies from £1.44! new only from £9.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Duluth more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a 'Hyatt Regency' romantic novel entitled ROGUE DUKE. In Duluth they do it all with word processors. Meanwhile Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, strip-search enthusiast, terrorizes a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Washington D.C. more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Gore Vidal's WASHINGTON, D.C.--the final installment in the Narratives of Empire series--takes place between the years 1937 and 1953. His hero, young Peter Sanford, comes from a political family not unlike Vidal's; Sanford shares the story with Senator James Burden Day, who resembles Vidal's grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore of Oklahoma. While the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Gore Vidal returns to his favorite subject, "the United States of Amnesia," for this collection of essays, many of which focus on his bête noire, George W. Bush, whom Vidal considers the most reckless and predatory president in American history. In addition, essays written between 1975 and 2004 cover--with caustic wit--such topics as the war on ... see all copies from £2.02! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
16	Myron more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Vidal continues the story he began in MYRA BRECKINRIDGE by having Myra transported back to 1948, reverting to her masculine self in the process, while Myron finds himself on the set of a B-movie. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £14.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Live from Golgotha more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Thanks to the latest breakthrough in computer software, a cyberpunk- known bleakly as The Hacker- is destroying the tapes that describe the mission of Jesus Christ and His Gospel or Good News. The Sacred Story is vanishing rapidly. Fortunately one tape is Hackerproof, that of Timothy, who in his youth, was Robin to Saint Paul's Batman. Now, in ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	City and the Pillar more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist First published in 1948, Gore Vidal's THE CITY AND THE PILLAR was one of the first novels depicting positive gay subject matter to reach a mainstream audience. Structured around a love affair, Vidal's novel depicts one man's experiences in the gay scenes of California and New York; the central relationship was based on his own boyhood love for his ... see all copies from £4.41! new only from £5.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years more books like this by Israel Shahak, Gore Vidal (Foreword by) add to wishlist This book is part of Pluto's 21st birthday series "Get Political", which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. Israel Shahak is a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish Orthodoxy and Hebrew culture, he has consistently ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.63!
20 view cover	Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press more books like this by Kristina Borjesson (Editor), Gore Vidal (Foreword by) add to wishlist In the pieces collected in this anthology, journalists reflect on how important news stories are commonly squelched because of corporate interests and advertiser demands. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.90! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Smithsonian Institution more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist This historical novel by the author of BURR and LINCOLN concerns the adventures of brilliant young schoolboy named "T," who becomes involved in the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb during the 1940s. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Golden Age more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist THE GOLDEN AGE concludes Vidal's seven-volume series of American historical novels with a tale set between 1939 and 1954--the World War II era and the Cold War years. A movie actress turned journalist and her nephew, a newspaper publisher, provide the vision through which Vidal examines America's evolution into a powerful global empire. The book ... see all copies from £3.46! new only from £6.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Myra Breckinridge more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £13.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Collected Stories, 1939-1976 more books like this by Paul Bowles, Gore Vidal (Introduction by) add to wishlist The publication by Black Sparrow in 1979 of Paul Bowles' Collected Stories sparked the rediscovery of Bowles' works that has brought world renown to the American expatriate writer, for decades resident in Tangier, Morocco. Gore Vidal's Introduction to this large collection remarks "His stories are among the best ever written by an American". see all copies from £5.57! new only from £41.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Hollywood more books like this by Gore Vidal add to wishlist Published with 5 other titles as part of Gore Vidal's work, a novel set in 1917 in Hollywood where the fledgling movie industry is growing. It follows the fortunes of a woman who is catapulted into stardom. First published in 1990. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.87! \| signed copies \| first editions

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