Gore Vidal
Author
Publisher
BDD Audio
Pub. Date
p2000.
Language
English
Description
The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher...
Author
Series
American chronicle volume 1
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A fictional memoir illuminating Aaron Burr's life and times, highlighting his political accomplishments and fatal duel with Alexander Hamilton.
Author
Publisher
Thunder's Mouth/Nation
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Essays question the consensus view of the causes behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, and examine the erosion of American civil liberties as a result of the war on terrorism.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
The satirical play follows the exploits of Kreton, an alien who lands on Earth, hoping to catch a glimpse of the American Civil War only to find that "something went wrong with the machine"; he has landed in the Manassas, Virginia, of the mid-twentieth century, outside of the Spelding family's home. Upon learning that it is not 1861, Kreton nevertheless decides to stay and observe human behavior. "You are my hobby,'' he tells the Speldings, "and I...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where a crash program to develop the atomic bomb is being conducted in the basement. The boy turns out to hold the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and breakthroughs in the time continuum. As he brainstorms with Robert Oppenheimer, he catches a glimpse of the coming war and becomes determined to ward off the cataclysm. In a race against time-and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Finally back in print -- Gore Vidal's outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece. "I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess." So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama and Modeling. Myra has a secret that only her surgeon shares; a passion for classic Hollywood films, which she...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The story that launched a thousand movies, TV shows, and plays! A mutiny on board their ship leaves Lord and Lady Greystoke stranded on a desolate African beach with their newborn son. Soon after, the aristocratic couple perishes, leaving the boy an orphan--until the she-ape Kala rescues the infant, names him "Tarzan" ("white skin"), and raises him as one of her own. As he grows, Tarzan schools himself in the ways of both man and beast and rises to...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This is an unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal's America, the political coup has already happened. The right have triumphed and the human values of the liberals have been consigned to history. But how did this happen and who organized it? In this film Gore Vidal's acerbic, opinionated and informed approach rips away at the facade of the new America. The film dramatizes Gore's political views and his concern at the present state of American...
11) Bob Roberts
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A radical folksinger turned senatorial candidate blends the campaign trail with singing, music videos and scandal.
12) Why we fight
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more imperial and uncertain future.
14) Lincoln
Publisher
Platinum
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.
15) Best of enemies
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians in motion pictures, with excerpts from 120 different films, and comments by contemporary actors, writers, and commentators including Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein, Shirley MacLaine, and Gore Vidal.
Publisher
Double O Film
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and work of Barney Rosset, the influential head of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review, who published such groundbreaking works of fiction as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Naked Lunch, and Tropic of Cancer, while fighting the U.S. government's obscenity laws along the way.
Author
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the ever-changing landscape of American drama offers a collection of short dramatic works from Daisy Foote, David Ives, William Saroyan, Gore Vidal, Shel Silverstein, Tennessee Williams, and other notable playwrights.