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041 _aeng
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_aAltman, Dennis,
_d1943-
245 1 0 _aGore Vidal's America /
_cDennis Altman.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aMalden, MA :
_bPolity,
_c2005.
300 _ax, 216 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-193) and indexes.
505 0 0 _tPreface : the writer as social critic --
_tVidal's life --
_tCelebrity --
_tAmerica and its history --
_tGore Vidal's American chronicles --
_tThe growth of American empire --
_tMasculinity and empire --
_tPolitics --
_tVidal and America in the twenty-first century --
_tGore Vidal and "political correctness" --
_tVidal as writer --
_tSex --
_tGore Vidal and queer theory --
_tHollywood --
_tReligion --
_tGore Vidal's America.
600 1 0 _aVidal Gore
_d1925
_9387593
651 0 _aUnited States
_xIntellectual life
_y20th century
_9384421
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y20th century
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_y1945
942 _x1000069
_kPS0003543I26Z52005
_cBOOK
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