Vidal re-created in Julian the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. His polished and erudite style of narration readily evoked the time and place of his stories, and perceptively delineated the psychology of his characters. As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. 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. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. He was a Democratic Party politician who twice sought elected office first to the United States House of Representatives, then to the U.S.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal OctoJuly 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.
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