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Gore Vidal's America

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3363-3
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220 pages
October 2005, Polity
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Preface: The Writer as Social Critic.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

One Vidal's Life.

Two Celebrity.

Three America and its History.

Gore Vidal's American Chronicles.

The Growth of American Empire.

Masculinity and Empire.

Four Politics.

Vidal and America in the Twenty First Century.

Gore Vidal and 'Political Correctness'.

Five Vidal as Writer.

Six Sex.

Gore Vidal and Queer Theory.

Seven Hollywood.

Eight Religion.

Nine Gore Vidal's America.

Personal Note.

Notes.

References.

Chronology.

General index.

Index of Fictional Characters.

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