Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 22, 2018 - Literary Collections - 464 pages
Fourty-four essays on literature, politicking in government and in literary circles, and such celebrated contemporary characters as Norman Mailer, Dr. David Reuben, and Susan Sontag by the man Alfred Kazin has called "one of the best-informed and most biting polemicists of our overgrown American way of life."
 

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NOTE
A NOTE ON THE NOVEL
VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET
LOVE LOVE LOVE
BERNARD SHAWS HEARTBREAK HOUSE
NORMAN MAILERS SELFADVERTISEMENTS
PRESIDENT KENNEDY
A CHAT
POLICE BRUTALITY
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Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

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