The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called 'perpetual...

With a New IntroductionWashington, D.C., is the final installment in Gore Vidal's Narrati...

'Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practi...

'I exist to say, ‘No, that isn't the way it is,' or ‘What you believe to be true is not true for ...

When a mortician appears on television to declare that death isinfinitely preferable to life, h...

'Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating.'...

Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It ...

It's 1939, and a teenage math genius is mysteriously summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, whe...

Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal's scintillating ninth collection, ...

In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the ...

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revoluti...

In Death Before Bedtime, dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is invited to the home of a venerable sen...