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Title: | 'Gore Vidal's America' By Dennis Altman: Polity Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp 216, $41.95 (paper) | Contributor(s): | Harris, Stephen (author) | Publication Date: | 2006 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1752 | Abstract: | During his now-sixty year career as writer, political commentator and social critic, Gore Vidal has passed comment – usually of a wittily incisive and scabrous nature – on a wide range of topics. He has also passed judgement on a fair number of people, and it is not difficult to find a ready fund of Vidal’s well-honed quips and acidic ‘apercus’ relating to famous or otherwise notable personages. In Dennis Altman’s words, ‘Vidal […] has entertained, declaimed, pontificated, and satirized in ways that have made him a controversial public figure for over half a century’ (p.174); and for his irreverent animadversions he has drawn both the ire and admiration of many. | Publication Type: | Review | Source of Publication: | Australasian Journal of American Studies, 25(2), p. 56-59 | Publisher: | Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association (ANZASA) | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1838-9554 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 060310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy | HERDC Category Description: | D3 Review of Single Work | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/Articles/2_06/FORUM.pdf |
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