Gore Vidal's AmericaISBN: 978-0-7456-3363-3
Paperback
220 pages
October 2005, Polity
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- A major new examination of the ways in which Vidal's writings
on history, politics, sex and religion throw into focus our
understandings of the United States.
- Ranges widely - from Vidal's defence of homosexuality in his
earliest works to his most recent writings on the war in
Iraq.
- Provides a unique perspective on the evolution of post-World
War II American society, politics and literature through one of the
most significant writers of the 20th Century.
- Written by an experienced and well known author who has had
personal contact with Vidal for more than 20 years.
- Is pitched at a general reader as a trade title and will also be useful for students of American Literature and Society.