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Vidal—Never More Vital

By Doug Ireland

Just in time to help us celebrate Gore Vidal’s birthday—he turned 80 on October 3—comes Dennis Altman’s Gore Vidal’s America. This is not a biography; Fred Kaplan’s admirable Gore Vidal: A Life definitively fills that niche. But Altman’s book-length essay gives us a valuable understanding of the central project of America’s most visible radical public intellectual: to help us imagine… return to article

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    Thank you, Doug Ireland, for pointing us to what looks to be a good book about a great man!

    Germany Posted by Anarcho-Sozi on Nov 3, 2005 at 11:21 AM

    Am delighted to have discovered not only your post but ironically I posted an item only yesterday honouring the incomparable Gore Vidal in my blog http://neilemacview.blog.ca/main/ entitled “Time to revisit Gore Vidal for the answers.” Please drop by and say hello. I’m delighted to say “In These Times” is now loaded in my blog.ca’s RSS feed and will be used daily to keep up with your timely news. Thanks for honouring Gore Vidal too. namasté

    Canada Posted by neilemac on Nov 11, 2005 at 7:30 AM

    I’m using this vehicle to express my deep gratitude to Mr. Vidal.

    His collection of essays have put a mighty wind in my sails, many times when the whether was dank and cold and I couldn’t see the shore.

    Ok, enough, already.

    I do hope GV reads this, soaks up some of the good stuff laying out and about in the hinterlands—it’s here, all right. Just scrape off the mold.  THERE!

    United States Posted by lbyland on Dec 4, 2005 at 6:44 AM

    GV is America’s greatest and most honest social treasure. I fear that when he is gone, there will be no one to take his place.

    United States Posted by chuckville on Dec 7, 2005 at 3:44 PM

    To vidal or not to vidal is not the question, it’s the answer. I’ve created a verb from his name. Ever since I read his “Imperial America Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, I’ve also begun a new blog. ”vidalism’s apprentice.”
    Drop by and say ‘hello’. Come on, be ‘vidalic’, flaunt me some facts.

    Canada Posted by neilemac on Dec 7, 2005 at 4:24 PM
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