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1 de jul. de 2002 · The American Presidency (The Real Story Series) Paperback – July 1, 2002. by Gore Vidal (Author) 4.2 14 ratings. See all formats and editions. An entertaining, insightful history of the men who've held the office, from the division between Jefferson and Hamilton through Bill Clinton's campaign for national health care.
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1 de set. de 1998 · This delightful essay (only 80 small pages--I read it all in a couple of hours) skewers our historic idols, the American Presidents, including Washington, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, and JFK (whom Vidal calls charming but a very bad and war-mongering President).
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The American presidency by Gore Vidal. Publication date 1998 Topics Presidents -- United States -- History., Presidents -- United States -- Biography., Presidents ...
2 de ago. de 2012 · Reagan’s America was dangerously like Sparta, Vidal said, ruled by an elite, bound by tradition, xenophobic, not a democracy but a “militarized republic” too eager for confrontation.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( / vɪˈdɑːl / vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. [1] His novels and essays interrogated the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life.
The Narratives of Empire series is a heptalogy of historical novels by Gore Vidal, published between 1967 and 2000, which chronicle the dawn-to-decadence history of the "American Empire"; the narratives interweave the personal stories of two families with the personages and events of U.S. history.
The American Presidency. From one of our wittiest social critics comes a brilliant and entertaining foray into the nation's highest office and the men who have held it. From Washington to...
