Gore Vidal

From the Publisher: Gore Vidal-novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialists-is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture,...

T., a thirteen-year-old math prodigy, is summoned to the Smithsonian on Good Friday 1939, where scientists are working furiously to develop the atomic bomb, and discovers that he holds the key to both the secrets of nuclear fission and time travel.

A satiric look at the state of the union centers on a relocated Duluth and its assorted politicians, policemen and women, terrestrial and extraterrestrial aliens, Hispanics, feminists, mobsters, and other minorities.

The story of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War years. It recreates the climate of a country divided against itself as the President struggled to guide the nation and confront his family tragedies

Reflects the sharp divide that exists among the American people on why we are in Iraq. Also asks some pertinent questions about the economic necessities of war. Includes interviews of people on the street.

Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Vincent is an "In-Valid," who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception,...

After going to Europe to have a sex change operation, Myron Breckinridge is transformed into Myra, who claims to be Myron's widow.