Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century. In addition to a major sequence of seven novels about American history, and such satirical novels as "Myra Breckinridge" and "Duluth," he has written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under a pseudonym. He has also written well over a hundred essays, gathered in several volumes published between 1962 and 2001. Taken as a whole, this seemingly varied work has an uncanny unity, exhibiting a tone of easy familiarity with the world of politics and letters, an urbane wit, and a supreme self-confidence on the part of the writer. Vidal's lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire. - Jay Parini
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Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject: United States of Amnesia - Gore Vidal
"Well, isn't it pretty clear that the dictatorship is in place? We're not supposed to know certain things and we're not going to know them.......What I have always called jokingly the United States of Amnesia will be worse than a amnesiac. It will have suffered a frontal labotomy; there will be no functioning historical memory of our history". Gore Vidal, 2003, p143
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject:
Gore Vidal on 911
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Gore Vidal thoughts on 9/11 and how far this country has fallen...
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:02 pm Post subject:
Gore Vidal has died, aged 86. I think it is important enough to post in '9/11 Truth News', because he has been one of the most high-profile people to fearlessly champion 9/11 Truth.
Just about par for the course, the Guardian says sweet Fanny Adams about his stance on 9/11; and it's not in the 'Comment' section.
But keep an eye on the 'Obits' and articles; we may find an opportunity to get his position on 9/11 across. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:03 pm Post subject:
The Guardian does actually have a 'Comment is Free' article on Gore Vidal.
I managed to get this up:
'The most important legacy Gore Vidal left, was his unswerving conviction that 9/11 was an 'Inside Job'.
Not a word about that conviction in any of the obits I've read to date, but surely, if (as I would stake my life on) he was right, anything else he wrote pales into insignificance.
He put his good name and his conscience where his mouth was - would that more 'celebs' would have the courage to state the obvious.
He may well have wrote that Christians are hypocrites - as a Christian, I can only agree with him insofar as the 'leaders' (Vatican, 'Televangelists' like Billy Graham etc (showing my age a bit here; there have been plenty since him) and the mugs who sheepishly follow the 'Right -Wing Fundamentalist Rapture Merchants').
God bless you, Gore. You deserve a place in Heaven.' _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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