His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. Senator, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. Senate (for California).Ī grandson of a U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. He unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( / v ɪ ˈ d ɑː l/ born Eugene Louis Vidal, Octo– July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit.
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