Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal

Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal / Jay Parini.

"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...

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Main Author: Parini, Jay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Vidal, Gore, > 1925-2012.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Biography.
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.

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