Gore Vidal : In Conversation

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9 жыл бұрын

Robert Morgan's interview with celebrated 'vain and greedy' but iconoclastic author and playwright Gore Vidal at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2001.

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@circlesinthenight3141 7 жыл бұрын

I have not seen this before . thank you for posting . I love him

@anthonyhowarth2177 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant man, sorely missed

@dengelke 9 жыл бұрын

Great interview with Gore. Witty and damning all at once. "If I had the answer to that question, I'd be leading an army." Thanks for the upload.

@JeffRebornNow Жыл бұрын

He was so brilliant. I loved him -- still do love him. If anyone sees this comment and you've never read him, I suggest you start with "Myra Breckenridge" and its sequel, "Myron." They're wonderfully funny and entertaining, more entertaining and funnier than any movie you could go and see today. "Duluth" is also a riot, and in terms of pure humor it has the Myra books beat Now, if you're into history (particularly American history) you should read his "Burr" and his "Lincoln." They're wonderfully crafted and while you're being entertained by the narrative you're actually learning something about history.

@acohen1980 9 жыл бұрын

thANX FOR THIS

@77lassiter15 9 жыл бұрын

There is nothing but a great void and chasm now that he is gine

@bassface3287 9 жыл бұрын

"Reading is not a very popular pastime". "This is a Pentagon Government, not one with any representation" Gore Vidal _ A True Patriot! (RIP)

@brianexplores285 3 жыл бұрын

What a guy!

@vinm300 3 жыл бұрын

4:10 George W Bush "Never read a book" He did actually, he liked reading. Bush's problem was that he kept reading the same book : in office he read 18 books on Abraham Lincoln, maybe the same number on the Alamo. That is why he was so dumb.

@NoOne-kr4jc 2 жыл бұрын

Well, let's look at his choices in making him dumb. He did things along to his path to the pinnacle of his power, where he was not intellectualized enough to become a fit president of the nation, and unfortunately, he also had ill intent.

@charleswinokoor6023 5 жыл бұрын

He became truly deranged in his later years.

@MattSingh1 3 жыл бұрын

Precisely- thankfully Christopher Hitchens called him out on his absurdity post-September 11th, 2001. Like Chomsky, Finkelstein, Edward Said el at, Vidal was a great man pre-9/11, but totally lost his way and ended up being a water-carrier for Islamofascism post-September-11th, 2001.

@nickwyatt9498 2 жыл бұрын

As one who had admired Vidal the essayist (more than the novelist) for decades, and who thought of him as one of the few sane voices coming out of of the USA, I found it incredibly depressing to hear him taking sides with all the conspiracy-theory nutjobs after 9/11. Also hearing him on BBC Radio 4's Start The Week, where he was a frequent and welcome guest, pontificating about how America should have stayed isolationslist and let Hitler get on with it. That being said, God knows what nonsense I'll be coming out with when I hit 80.

@NoOne-kr4jc 2 жыл бұрын

@@nickwyatt9498 I saw him on KZfaq at some convention where this topic was brought up about Hitler, and he said that is the only war he agrees with where we should have taken action was The Second World War.

@lucianopavarotti2843 Жыл бұрын

Michael Mewshaw writes that he was basically depressed from his early 50s and had suicidal ideation for the last 30 years of his life. He declined fast when his partner of 50+ years died and lost his guardrails. The young vVdal would have been horrified by his older self, but thats what illness does

@JeffRebornNow Жыл бұрын

@@nickwyatt9498 Nick, I can tell by your comment that you're fairly educated but I am afraid you've got it wrong as regards Gore's attitude toward America's intervention in WW II. He thought the United States should have fought, and he enlisted (he didn't wait to be drafted) in the army when he was 17 years old and served in it until 1946