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ARTICLES RELATED TO Gore Vidal - Biography | | | |  Gore Vidal - Biography: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - BiographyHe was born Eugene Luther Vidal in West Point, New York, the son of Eugene Vidal and Nina Gore. His birth took place at the United States Military Academy where his father was an aeronautics instructor. Vidal later adopted as his first name the surname of his maternal grandfather, Thomas P. Gore, Democratic Senator from Oklahoma.
Vidal was brought up in the Washington, D.C., area. It was there that he attended St. Albans School. His grandfather Gore was blind, and the young Vidal both read aloud to him and frequently acted as h ...
See also:Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal - Biography, Gore Vidal - Writing career, Gore Vidal - Controversial Political Views, Gore Vidal - Views on September 11 2001, Gore Vidal - Essays and Non-Fiction, Gore Vidal - Plays, Gore Vidal - Novels, Gore Vidal - Under Pseudonyms Read more here: » Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - Biography |
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| | | | Gore Vidal - Biography: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - Writing career At age 21, he published his first novel, Williwaw, based upon his military experiences in the Alaskan Harbor Detachment. The book was well received. A few years later, his novel The City and the Pillar, which dealt candidly with gay themes, caused a furor, to the extent that the daily New York Times refused to review a number of his later books. The book was dedicated to "J.T." who, after rumors were published in a magazine, Vidal was eventually forced to confirm was his St. Albans love Jimmie Trimble and who the book cl ...
See also:Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal - Biography, Gore Vidal - Writing career, Gore Vidal - Controversial Political Views, Gore Vidal - Views on September 11 2001, Gore Vidal - Essays and Non-Fiction, Gore Vidal - Plays, Gore Vidal - Novels, Gore Vidal - Under Pseudonyms Read more here: » Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - Writing career |
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| | | | Gore Vidal - Biography: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - Views on September 11 2001 Vidal is critical of the Bush administration, as he has been of previous U.S. administrations that he considers to have either an explicit or implicit expansionist agenda. He has frequently made the point in interviews, essays, and in a recent book that Americans "are now governed by a junta of oil-Pentagon men ... both Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld and so on". He claims that for several years this group and their associates have aimed to control the oil of central Asia (after, in his view, gaining effective control of the oil of the Persian Gulf ...
See also:Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal - Biography, Gore Vidal - Writing career, Gore Vidal - Controversial Political Views, Gore Vidal - Views on September 11 2001, Gore Vidal - Essays and Non-Fiction, Gore Vidal - Plays, Gore Vidal - Novels, Gore Vidal - Under Pseudonyms Read more here: » Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - Views on September 11 2001 |
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| | | | Gore Vidal - Biography: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - Controversial Political Views Vidal considers himself a "radical reformer" who has been described as wanting to return to the "pure republicanism" of early America. As a prep school student, he was a supporter of the America First movement. Unlike other supporters of the movement, he continues to hold that the United States should not have become involved in World War II (although he now appears to believe that material assistance to the Allies was a good idea). He has also suggested that President Roosevelt "incited" the Japanese to attack the United States to allow American entry into the war ...
See also:Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal - Biography, Gore Vidal - Writing career, Gore Vidal - Controversial Political Views, Gore Vidal - Views on September 11 2001, Gore Vidal - Essays and Non-Fiction, Gore Vidal - Plays, Gore Vidal - Novels, Gore Vidal - Under Pseudonyms Read more here: » Gore Vidal: Encyclopedia II - Gore Vidal - Controversial Political Views |
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