The Gore Vidal Pages: One of the US's greatest men of letters of the
1950s–1990s, a son of political privilege raised in Washington D.C.,
he wrote of politics, religion (and atheism), history, empire,
Hollywood, the national security state, power, sex, and the powerful.
An essayist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, famously
self-assured, a wit, and often acerbic in public, he was
controversial, a lover of the limelight, and a commentator whose
politics were basically isolationist, socially progressive, and
anti-militarist with a hearty dose of libertarian suspicion about
government power.
