10 Books A Day: #80

Burr...Gore Vidal...Random House

Lincoln...Gore Vidal...Random House

1876...Gore Vidal...Random House

Empire...Gore Vidal...Random House

Hollywood...Gore Vidal...Random House

Washington, D. C. ...Gore Vidal...Little, Brown

The Golden Age...Gore Vidal...Doubleday

Julian...Gore Vidal...Signet

Creation...Gore Vidal...Ballantine Books

The City And The Pillar and seven early stories...Gore Vidal...Random House

Clouds And Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories...Gore Vidal...Carroll & Graf

United States: Essays 1952-1992...Gore Vidal...Random House

Palimpsest: A Memoir...Gore Vidal...Random House

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir...Gore Vidal...Doubleday


Besides writing novels with admirably short titles (which makes it easy for people compiling lists of his works), Gore Vidal is that rarest of birds, a patrician gadfly whose opinions put him squarely out of the mainstream. Among his contentions: that there is no two party system in the United States, there is only the Property Party, that comes with two slightly different flavors; that the U. S. would be better off going back to its old isolationist policies rather than sticking its imperial nose all over the globe; and that there are no such things as homosexuals or heterosexuals, there are only homosexual or heterosexual acts. I agree with at least two of these propositions.

Book Count: 1014.