Orginally published in 1984, Vidal's novel of Lincoln's presidency allows the man to breathe again. As the Civil War ravages his nation, President Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections.-- from publisher's description.

Blaise Sanford, a ruthless Washington, D.C. newspaper tycoon, his son, Peter, a liberal editor, and others present a portrait of national politics from the New Deal to the McCarthy era.

"The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's American empire novels - a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.". "The Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War Two and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire....

Follows the career of Caroline Sanford, a brilliant and beautiful newspaper publisher who leaves Washington to become a Hollywood producer and movie star.

Re-creates the American political scene of the early 1800's, seen through the memoirs of Aaron Burr.

In 1948, Gore Vidal was a celebrated twenty-two-year-old war novelist about to embark on a career in politics. His future seemed clear. But then he made a choice that changed his life. He published The City and the Pillar, an openly homosexual novel that was taken to be largely autobiographical. "I have read that I was too stupid at the time to know what I was doing," he notes in his introduction to this edition, "but in such matters I have always...

From the Publisher: Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialists-is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture,...

T., a thirteen-year-old math prodigy, is summoned to the Smithsonian on Good Friday 1939, where scientists are working furiously to develop the atomic bomb, and discovers that he holds the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and time travel.

A collection of essays on United States literature, politics, and events spanning the past 40 years.

Reflects the sharp divide that exists among the American people on why we are in Iraq. Also asks some pertinent questions about the economic necessities of war. Includes interviews of people on the street.