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Burr by Gore Vidal
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Narratives of Empire
In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American hist ...Show more
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener by Gore Vidal
17.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is, ' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there's a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there's a hole in the road and if you don't fill it in you'll break the axle ...Show more
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Narratives of Empire | Reading Level: good
In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through fou ...Show more
Messiah by Gore Vidal
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Now available in a Penguin Classic edition, Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first publi ...Show more
Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal
32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Hard Case Crime
Gore Vidal was one of America's greatest writers. The author of 23 novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories and well over 200 essays, he received the National Book Award in 1993. But in the wake of criticism for the scandalous content of his third novel, 'The City and th ...Show more
Vidal vs. Mailer by Gore Vidal
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This unique collection of interviews and correspondence records the infamous and decades-long fight - both rhetorical and physical - between Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal. The feud remains of cult interest to many in the literary community, with the legacy of both remaining strong to this day. The introd ...Show more
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