Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal, Jay Parini

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Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal, Jay Parini

Title remainder

a life of Gore Vidal

Statement of responsibility

Jay Parini

Instantiates

• Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal

Publication

• New York, Doubleday, 2015

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier.

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent.

Contents

Introduction. Rock Creek ramble -- A silver-plated mug -- Capitol steps -- A wider world -- Truman and Gore at the Plaza -- Not a lovely war -- Two roads diverging -- Storm at sea -- Hearts of darkness -- Edgewater recalled -- Portrait of the artist as Balletomane -- Pillars of salt -- Stateside -- More dolce vita -- Finding Dutchess County -- Loving Howard -- Beverly Hills blues -- Detecting life -- The Spanish main -- Media as messages -- Silvery screens -- More visits to small planets -- Outlaws -- Ben-Hur -- A place at the round table -- At the Water's edge - Hyannis -- "You'll get more with Gore" -- Slouching towards Camelot -- Essaying the world -- Roman spring -- Julian rising -- Moravia and Gore on the Isola Tiberna -- Romanitas -- Capitol steps revisited -- The holy family -- Myra -- Busy weekends -- The Vidal-Buckley debates -- Furious visions -- Miss Sontag writes a novel -- A bad year -- Writing Richard Nixon -- Italian hours -- Patriotic Gore -- The swirl -- Myron unmanned -- The man who wouldn't fall to earth -- Half a century -- 1876 and all that -- Memories, dreams, self-reflections -- Apocalypse not quite yet -- Hollywood redux -- Grace and hope -- Gore and Isaiah Berlin in Oxford -- Acting president -- Running in place -- Duluth : love it or loathe it -- Honorary citizen -- Land of Lincoln -- Ah, Venice! -- The lesson of the master -- "It's a trade" -- "One disaster after another" -- Fear of flying -- Imperium -- Sailing the coast -- Adding wings to the mansion -- Lenny and gore -- "Our country's biographer" -- "The other side of the camera" -- Attacking the sky-God -- Thinking about sex -- Retreats, advances -- In the widening gyre -- At the Harvard Faculty Club -- Rethinking Washington -- Dreams of wholeness -- Elder statesman -- Reviewing the life -- The golden age -- Still the best man -- Songs in the Hollywood Hills -- The pamphleteer -- Finding founding fathers -- A death before bedtime -- Marching to the sea -- The last memoir -- Mopping-up operations -- Snapshots of the end -- Conclusion -- Postscript

Control code

900594425

Dimensions

25 cm

Edition

First edition.

Extent

xii, 464 pages

Isbn

9780385537568

Lccn

2015004719

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia.

Media type code

• n

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illustrations

Record ID

.b111903968

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(OCoLC)900594425