This work deals with the life and work of Gore Vidal. He was a renowned author, playwright, journalist-turned-screenwriter and
movie scriptwriter, speechwriter, an enormously prolific essayist, a prodigious satirist, a pundit dedicated to social and political topics, and – besides for his fictional and historical short stories and novels – most famous for the realistic
one-of-a-kind play about politics, "The Best Man" (1960).
Not only did he have political ambitions as learned and literate writers sometimes do to no avail, but he was also actually involved in politics and public life, not so much prominently as consistently. Being a man with plenty of aplomb, both revolutionary and conservative, idealist and pacifist, made him a person of honor and detest at the same time.
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
2 DETERMINED BY ORIGIN?
2.1 VIDAL’S GRANDFATHER, HIS BOOKS, AND A MESSAGE
2.2 CONNECTION TO THE KENNEDY CLAN
3 CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL VIEWS
3.1 VIDAL’S ATTITUDES - FORMED BY ANCIENT PROTAGONISTS AS EXEMPLARS
3.2 POLITICAL AMBITIONS
3.3 REJECTING AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
3.4 CUMBERSOME CONTRADICTIONS AND SUBTLE SENILITY
3.5 OBAMA’S PRESIDENCY - VIDAL’S LAST DISAPPOINTMENT
3.6 FURTHER PERSONAL ANIMOSITIES
4 SEXUAL ORIENTATION
5 THE ESSENCE OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS -THE BEST MAN
6 VIDAL FOR PRESIDENT? APPROACHING AN ARGUMENTATIVE ASSUMPTION
7 CONCLUSION
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