WW II forced him to return to the United States. The author regrets not staying in Europe longer. The author got to traverse Europe as a young man and Rome had such an impact on him that it featured heavily in a number of his literary creations. Vidal’s love for Italy and, in particular, Rome was well documented. This was partly because of his grandfather Thomas Pryor Gore who went blind at one point and required young Vidal to read aloud to him. The author started reading at a young age. Nina Gore was married again on two separate occasions, with the marriages giving Gore Vidal a few half-siblings. Vidal’s mother, who divorced his father in 1935, was an actress who had the fortune of appearing on Broadway. Vidal’s father was a military man, a lieutenant at a Military Academy in the United States.
Two years later the author became Gore Vidal, choosing to discard his other names because he believed an author needed something sharp and succinct for a name if people were to remember him. It wasn’t until he was baptized at the age of 13 at Albans that he got the name ‘Gore’. At birth, Gore was christened Eugene Louis Vidal. Gore Vidal was born to Eugene Luther Vidal and Nina Gore at West Point in New York. Born in 1925, Vidal rarely had any kind words for his nation, often referring to the United States as a decadent empire ruled by a militaristic dictatorship. Gore Vidal was an American author who was best known for his political commentary and television appearances. Paths of Resistance (With: Isabel Allende,Charles McCarry)īuckley vs. The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 The Decline and Fall of the American Empire The sort of era where the President could easily be mistaken for a film star. One of unprecedented scandal, cinematic extravagance and tawdry disintegration. Weighed down by his League of Nation's failure, by Roosevelt, Clemenceau, a stroke and the ship-like tonnage of his wife Edith, President Woodrow Wilson is on the wane - and Warren Harding is on the up.Ī popular, handsome, toothpick-chomping philanderer and dimwit whose wife is given to consulting spiritualists, he is about to usher in a new era.
But in Washington, that government isn't doing awfully well. Not for nothing, on the dawn of World War One, is Caroline making films like the Huns from Hell. Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington.īut this is 1917, and Hollywood is now competing with America's capital as the nation's power-base, just as it fights for centre-stage in this book.Ĭaroline Sanford, erstwhile newspaper magnate, launches herself into the West Coast land of celluloid dreams and becomes, overnight, an international star.
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