{"id":5906,"date":"2012-08-05T16:28:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2012-08-05T16:28:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:28:20","slug":"gore-vidal-1925-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/gore-vidal-1925-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore Vidal, 1925-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Week of August 6, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In the News: <\/em><\/strong><strong>GORE VIDAL, 1925-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American novelist, essayist, and playwright Eugene Luther Gore Vidal died last week at the age of 86.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"456\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020750857\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5907\" title=\"Conversations with Gore Vidal\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/peabody.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA023081983\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5908\" title=\"How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/frank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020286152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5909\" title=\"Julian\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/julian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><em>1876: A Novel<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1976<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA021073018\">PS3543 .I26 E5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>At Home: Essays, 1982-1988<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1988<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020845316\">PS3543 .I26 A89 1988<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Burr: A Novel<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1973<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020757603\">PS3543 .I26 B8<!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1995<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020577729\">PS3543 .I26 C5 1995<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Carroll &amp; Graf Publishers, 2006<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA025152209\">PS3543 .I26 A6 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conversations with Gore Vidal<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole. University Press of Mississippi, 2005<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020750857\">PS3543 .I26 Z464 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Creation: A Novel<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Doubleday, 2002<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA021136146\">PS3543 .I26 C7 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Thunder\u2019s Mouth Press\/Nation Books, 2002<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020383085\">E902 .V53 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Duluth<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1983<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020045769\">PS3543 .I26 D8 1983<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Empire: A Novel<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1987<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA022466631\">PS3543 .I26 E4 1987<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Essential Gore Vidal<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Fred Kaplan. Random House, 1999<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA025643841\">PS3543 .I26 A6 1999<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Golden Age: A Novel<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Doubleday, 2000<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020541504\">PS3543 .I26 G65 2000<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gore Vidal: A Critical Companion<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Susan Baker and Curtis S. Gibson. Greenwood Press, 1997<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA023585975\">PS3543 .I26 Z53 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Donald Weise. Cleis, 1999<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA026221921\">PS3543 .I26 A6 1999<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1990<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020947259\">PS3543 .I26 H65 1990<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952-1972<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1972<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA021164412\">PS3543 .I26 A16 1972<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Marcie Frank. Duke University Press, 2005<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA023081983\">PS3543 .I26 Z66 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Nation Books, 2004<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA021895550\">E839.5 .V535 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Julian: A Novel<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Vintage International, 2003<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020286152\">PS3543 .I26 J8 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kalki: A Novel<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1978<br \/>\nCall Number : <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA024371278\">PS3543 .I26 .K34<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Doubleday, 2001<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020162916\">PS3543 .I26 L37 2001<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lincoln: A Novel<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1984<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020955665\">PS3543 .I26 L5 1984<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Live from Golgotha<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1992<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA022869203\">PS3543 .I26 L58 1992<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973-1976<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1977<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA021257253\">PS3543 .I26 M3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Myra Breckinridge<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Little, Brown, 1968<br \/>\nCall Number: PS3543 .I26 M88<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Myron: A Novel<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1974<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA022652442\">PS3543 .I26 M9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Palimpsest: A Memoir<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1995<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020256733\">PS3543 .I26 Z474 1995<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Thunder\u2019s Mouth Press\/Nation Books, 2002<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA022581224\">PS3543 .I26 A16 2002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Doubleday, 2006<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA021781971\">PS3543 .I26 Z475 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Little, Brown, 1969<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020009481\">PS3543 .I26 R4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rocking the Boat<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Little, Brown, 1962<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020385405\">PS3543 .I26 R6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982)<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1982<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA021863123\">PS3543 .I26 S28<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Screening History <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Harvard University Press, 1992<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA022326830\">PN1995.9 .H5 V54 1992<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Doubleday, 2008<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA025738866\">PS3543 .I26 A6 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1998<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA024559176\">PS3543 .I26 S65 1998<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Snapshots in History\u2019s Glare<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Abrams, 2009<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020939441\">PS3543 .I26 Z47 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>United States: Essays: 1952-1992<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1993<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020166772\">PS3543 .I26 U55 1993<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Vidal in Venice<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>By Gore Vidal. Summit Books, 1985<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA021179950\">DG674.2 .V44 1985<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Visit to a Small Planet, and Other Television Plays<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Little, Brown, 1956<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020812026\">PS3543 .I26 V5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Washington, DC: A Novel<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>By Gore Vidal. Little, Brown, 1967<br \/>\nCall Number: <a href=\"http:\/\/fau.catalog.fcla.edu\/permalink.jsp?28FA020384071\">PS3543 .I26 W38<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week of August 6, 2012 In the News: GORE VIDAL, 1925-2012 American novelist, essayist, and playwright Eugene Luther Gore Vidal died last week at the age of 86. &nbsp; 1876: A Novel By Gore Vidal. Random House, 1976 Call Number: PS3543 .I26 E5 At Home: Essays, 1982-1988 By Gore Vidal. 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