About the Author

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Winner of the National Book Award for United Sates: essays 1952-92, Vidal lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

"[Gore Vidal is] the master essayist of our age."

"Gore Vidal's pen should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction."

"He writes not from hatred but from a profound love betrayed and defiled, proudly casting himself as a noble defender of 'the American Republic against the American Global Empire."'

"It is impossible to conceive of a time when Vidal shouldn't be read--and published."