Empire of Self · A Life of Gore Vidal by Parini, Jay -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Other Titles Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Rock Creek Ramble Chapter One

I. A Silver-Plated Mug II. Capitol Steps III. A Wider World Truman and Gore at the Plaza

Chapter Two

I. Not a Lovely War II. Two Roads Diverging III. Storm at Sea IV. Hearts of Darkness Edgewater Recalled

Chapter Three

I. Portrait of the Artist as Balletomane II. Pillars of Salt III. Stateside IV. More Dolce Vita V. Finding Dutchess County VI. Loving Howard Beverly Hills Blues

Chapter Four

I. Detecting Life II. The Spanish Main III. Media as Messages IV. Silvery Screens V. More Visits to Small Planets VI. Outlaws VII. Ben-Hur VIII. A Place at the Round Table At the Water’s Edge—Hyannis

Chapter Five

I. “You’ll Get More with Gore” II. Slouching Towards Camelot III. Essaying the World IV. Roman Spring V. Julian Rising Moravia and Gore on the Isola Tiberna

Chapter Six

I. Romanitas II. Capitol Steps Revisited III. The Holy Family IV. Myra V. Busy Weekends VI. The Vidal-Buckley Debates VII. Furious Visions Miss Sontag Writes a Novel

Chapter Seven

I. A Bad Year II. Writing Richard Nixon III. Italian Hours IV. Patriotic Gore V. The Swirl VI. Myron Unmanned The Man Who Wouldn’t Fall to Earth

Chapter Eight

I. Half a Century II. 1876 and All That III. Memories, Dreams, Self-Reflections IV. Apocalypse Not Quite Yet V. Hollywood Redux VI. Grace and Hope Gore and Isaiah Berlin in Oxford

Chapter Nine

I. Acting President II. Running in Place III. Duluth: Love It or Loathe It IV. Honorary Citizen V. Land of Lincoln VI. Ah, Venice! The Lesson of the Master

Chapter Ten

I. “It’s a Trade” II. “One Disaster After Another” III. Fear of Flying IV. Imperium V. Sailing the Coast VI. Adding Wings to the Mansion Lenny and Gore

Chapter Eleven

I. “Our Country’s Biographer” II. “The Other Side of the Camera” III. Attacking the Sky-God IV. Thinking About Sex V. Retreats, Advances VI. In the Widening Gyre At the Harvard Faculty Club

Chapter Twelve

I. Rethinking Washington II. Dreams of Wholeness III. Elder Statesman IV. Reviewing the Life V. The Golden Age VI. Still the Best Man Songs in the Hollywood Hills

Chapter Thirteen

I. The Pamphleteer II. Finding Founding Fathers III. A Death Before Bedtime IV. Marching to the Sea V. The Last Memoir VI. Mopping-Up Operations VII. Snapshots of the End

Conclusion Postscript Acknowledgments Notes Photo Credits About the Author Illustrations