1998, ISBN: 9780375501210

Hardcover

New York, NY: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0394494776 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust j… More...

New York, NY: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0394494776 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an ink stamped remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block. The white covers have some generalized light toning aan occasional spot of ground-in dirt. "Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He twice sought office—unsuccessfully—as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U. S. House of Representatives (for New York) , and later in 1982 to the U. S. Senate (for California). A grandson of a U. S. Senator, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a deHis political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. " (from Wikipedia) ., Random House, 1974, 3, New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0375501215 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright"Vidal was born into an upper class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. As a novelist, Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His polished and erudite style of narration readily evoked the time and place of his stories, and perceptively delineated the psychology of his characters. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948) , offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, the plot being about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship. In the historical novel genre, Vidal recreated the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361–63) in Julian (1964). Julian was the Roman emperor who used religious tolerance to re-establish pagan polytheism to counter the political subversion of Christian monotheism. In social satire, Myra Breckinridge (1968) explores the mutability of gender roles and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores." (from Wikipedia) ., Random House, 1998, 4<

1998, ISBN: 9780375501210

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. One of Vidal's later works, set in Washington, D.C., in 1939 and featuring math prodigy &qu… More...

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. One of Vidal's later works, set in Washington, D.C., in 1939 and featuring math prodigy "T," mysteriously summoned by the government to the Smithsonian Institution where a crash program to develop an atomic bomb is underway in the basement; like other Vidal "inventions," such as Myra Breckinridge" and "Duluth," it is serious comedy skillfully written. Faint previous owner's signature and date on front end page, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square in near perfect dustjacket. Collectable., Random House, 1998, 4.5<

ISBN: 9780375501210

Random House. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex libra… More...

Random House. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Random House, 2.5<

1998, ISBN: 9780375501210

[ Edition: First ]. Good Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: Random House Pub Date: 2/24/1998 Bindi… More...

[ Edition: First ]. Good Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: Random House Pub Date: 2/24/1998 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 260, 2.5<