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Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.

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"""Jeff Cummings, who narrates several of Vidal's other nonfiction works, frees these ""occasional essays"" from Vidal's voice, and his overriding personality, and highlights their prose excellence, grace and wit, and fine writing."" --AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner"

Jeff Cummings, who narrates several of Vidal's other nonfiction works, frees these occasional essays from Vidal's voice, and his overriding personality, and highlights their prose excellence, grace and wit, and fine writing. --AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

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Gore Vidal (1925-2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

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