"Gore Vidal, the American writer, media pundit,
controversialist and politician manqué, who has died yesterday, aged 86, was celebrated
both for his caustic wit and his mandarin poise. His public career spanned seven
decades and included 25 novels, numerous collections of essays on literature and
politics, a volume of short stories, five Broadway plays, dozens of television
plays and film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under the
pseudonym Edgar Box. After 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, he
returned to center stage with a series of blistering pamphlets and public
pronouncements that led even many of his friends to pounce on him. But Vidal never looked back."
(Quoted from the obituary in The Guardian)
Books by Vidal in the library include:
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (2002)
Empire (1988)
Myron (1974)
Famous Quotes:
" The United States was founded by the
brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since."
"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
"All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself."
"Fifty percent of the people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."
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