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Gore Vidal

Essayist, critic and author of bestselling books, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta. He died in August at the age of 86.

StoryJan 01, 2013

2012 Culture and Resistance with Alice Walker, Randy Weston, Walter Mosley, Gore Vidal and More

StoryAug 03, 2012

Gore Vidal Remembered: 2003 Interview with Late Iconoclastic Writer & Longtime Critic of U.S. Empire

StoryAug 01, 2012

Longtime Critic of U.S. Empire, Iconoclastic Writer Gore Vidal Dies at 86

StoryMay 29, 2008

Gore Vidal on the Kennedys and His 1960s Battle with the New York Times

StoryMay 14, 2008

Legendary Author Gore Vidal on the Bush Presidency, History and the “United States of Amnesia”

StoryJan 31, 2006

Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union: “Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us.”

StoryJan 25, 2005

Gore Vidal on Bush’s Inaugural Address: “The Most Un-American Speech I’ve Ever Heard”

StoryJun 04, 2004

Imperial America: Gore Vidal Reflects on the United States of Amnesia

StoryMay 21, 2004

Gore Vidal on the “United States of Amnesia”

StoryMay 13, 2003

Gore Vidal on the “United States of Amnesia,” 9/11, the 2000 Election and the War in Iraq

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