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"The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" reminds us that this combative political provocateur is also one of our finest literary critics.
  • The Courage of Gore Vidal

    Gore Vidal also had the courage to tell the truth about lovely Israel at least 20 years before any other eminent American dared touch the subject.

    His essays on the pro-Zionist lobby and their cynical use of the Holocaust are also at least 20 years ahead of their time.

    That's a fantastically brave thing to do; see the reception people like Jimmy Carter have had in our own times.