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At the Presidential primaries in the summer of 1960 in Philadelphia, Secretary of State William Russell lives by his principles, but is haunted by recent health problems that threaten his career and vote-winning potential
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Vidal’s straightforward, sharply-drawn scenario describes the bitter struggle for a party’s presidential nomination between an ambitious self-righteous character assassin (many
, 1977 - Drama - 94 pages William Russell, the ex-Secretary of State, is a wit and scholar with high liberal principles, beloved of the
Summary: William Russell, the ex-Secretary of State, is a wit and scholar with high liberal principles, beloved of the eggheads and suspected by
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Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013) is a documentary that surveys Vidal’s life
William Russell, the ex-Secretary of State, is a wit and scholar with high liberal principles, beloved of the eggheads and suspected by practical politicians
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Rather than let Cantwell smear his campaign with the rhetoric of his mental background and thus take the nomination, Russell chooses to endorse a dark-horse candidate few even reasonably considered
Ex-President Arthur Hockstader, who loves politics for its own sake, is determined to have the final say in the Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century
He was also an actor and wrote for Photo Features Remembering Gore Vidal's The Best Man on Broadway, With James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette, More The revival of Vidal's 1960 play about the lead-up to a U
[1] In 2002 he published a restored version, reinstating four chapters that a previous editor had cut and adding a brief foreword explaining what had happened and why he had restored the cut chapters
Julian is a 1964 novel by Gore Vidal, a work of historical fiction written primarily in the first person dealing with the life of the Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus (known to Christians as Julian the Apostate ), who reigned from 360 to 363 A
Kalki is narrated by Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, a Southern Californian aviator ("aviatrix" in the text) and author, who, after publishing a book called Beyond Motherhood, comes to the attention of Kalki, the leader of a Kathmandu-based religious cult
With that imperious opening sentence, Gore Vidal introduced his flamboyant transsexual heroine, one of the most willful and amusingly self-aware characters in modern literature
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The Screen: Gore Vidal's 'Best Man' (April 7, 1964) Starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson as rival presidential contenders, director Franklin Schaffner's film version of Vidal's play, "Best Man," was called "vivid, energetic and lacerating" by Times Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary
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