Armageddon? : essays 1983-1987
Vidal, Gore1987
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This collection of essays examines the leaders and lunacies of contemporary America, from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan. Vidal sees as most dangerous of all the "born-again Christians" who see the world in terms of a final cosmic cataclysm, after which only the elect will survive. Vidal is not just a political polemicist and the collection also contains reminiscences of his patrician childhood, appreciations of other writers such as Tennessee Williams, Frederic Prokosch, Paul Bowles, Anthony Burgess and Italo Calvino from the present day and past writers such as Henry James, William Dean Howells and Logan Pearsall Smith. Gore Vidal is author of 20 novels including "Williwaw", a volume of short stories and several collections of essays which include "Pink Triangle, Yellow Star".
Main title:
Armageddon? : essays 1983-1987 / Gore Vidal.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Deutsch, 1987.
Collation:
viii,244p ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
023398156X9780233981567
Dewey class:
814.54824
Local class:
081
Language:
English
Index terms:
Essays in EnglishAmerican writers1945-Texts
BRN:
1132415