This is the biography Gore Vidal has long needed. Provided with unique access to Vidal's life and his papers, he excavates many buried skeletons yet never loses sight of his deep respect for Vidal and his astounding gifts.

Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into an accessible, entertaining story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context, introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him, and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well-a virtual who's who of the American Century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Princess Margaret, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood.The life of Gore Vidal was an amazingly full one-full of colorful incident, famous people, and lasting achievements-that calls out for careful evocation and examination. Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. foreign policy, which are attractively cynical and elegantly Jeffersonian in worldview but offer little to serious students of international affairs despite their great wit and charm, they are unlikely to be consulted much in days to come.An intimate, authorized, yet frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925-2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century.The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self probes behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But Parini is too kind to Vidal’s essays on U.S. Parini’s critical appraisal of Vidal’s novels seems just the best of them are quite good, but none quite makes it to the first rank. House of Representatives and the Senate but was never elected. Parini discounts Vidal’s political efforts he ran for both the U.S. But his ambitions went further he hoped to be recognized as a major novelist and to become a significant political figure in the United States. Vidal was a successful American who went to the Old World and scaled the heights of its social and literary worlds. Parini, a novelist who knew Vidal well, has written a lucid, bracing, and candid book that is likely to become the definitive Vidal biography.

foreign policy, Gore Vidal became a prolific and widely read commentator on American life.

Through his historical fiction, his reviews, and his eloquent and acerbic essays on U.S.

Empire of Self by Jay Parini